It’s been a ton of work but it is just about done now. Need to read through and make any last minute edits, but it is almost finished. I’ve said it before but this book kept my mind occupied during those initial scary months of the pandemic. I had a deep focus which kept me off the couch and in the studio. This book was originally scheduled for November but, well, we all know how Covid threw a wrench in everything. But I plodded along and kept to the schedule, regardless. It was such a challenge but also such a joy since this book was both the brainchild of all my morning nature loving walks and the watercolor work I did on my last picture book. I feel like this process was a metaphor for life in some way—you stay focused, keep working hard, ignore the noise and at the end you have this thing that may not have seemed possible a year ago.