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It is winter here where I live, yet I am drawn to paint things that are warm and summery.   This one is from a recent trip to Florida, a place rich with bird-life, expansive beaches and an ever-changing ocean.   I enjoy creating paintings that are inspired by our travels.   As a matter of fact, I have an exhibition coming up at the end of this year that will feature paintings from the many places around the globe that we've been to.  Among the locations represented in the upcoming show are Peru, Bolivia, Australia, Sri Lanka, Europe, South-East Asia, New Zealand to name a few.  I'm sometimes gripped with fear that I do not have enough pieces to fill the walls of a large room at the Orillia Museum of Art and History--but I do.  And when that fear arises, I paint something from my travels.  This time it was the shorebirds of Florida.