Four Hours on a Sunday

Chopping...

starting to work through the pile of veggies

and more chopping.

Lots of green tomatoes, red peppers, green peppers, and onions.

Pile is about half chopped

  All chopped with a new, nineteen fifty-ish 'blitz hacker'.

Colander number one - before more tomatoes and before onions - filled two colanders piled high

Cooking and stirring two large pots of relish

4 hours later - the yield

Today was Make Relish Day.

The Motive

The latest and probably the painting that will be exhibited this Spring at the Rockport Art Association.  It is from a night photo that I took of Motif #1, which is often referred to as the motive by native Rockporters.

"Are you willing to sell it?" I was asked today. 
"That's why it is called The Motive, rather than Motif 1."