Steadfast

Welcome December! 

A time for pulling out all the Christmas decorations, pouring through Christmas recipe books, dreaming of sugarplums and waiting, anxiously, for the pond to freeze. 

As the decorations are unwrapped and set out, quilted wall hangings and a cross stitched advent calendar replace, temporarily, the Artist's work around the house. One special piece, however, comes out of hiding to makes its annual appearance, capturing Christmas at the old farmhouse splendidly. 

The Soldier, steadfast as any I've ever seen, ready to be called into action at a moment's notice.

This piece is pen and ink and every year I put my nose right up to the glass and stare in awe at all those tiny little dots. My husband had the patience to sit and make this. This is proof, my friends, that the old saying is true, opposites do attract.

~Happy December Friends!~

**addendum**

Some of you have asked how long it took him to complete this work; he worked on it each evening over the course of several months; he estimates around 150 hours. For those of you not familiar with pen and ink, the entire image is made of tiny dots. The picture is a fair size, measuring 12 by 20 inches.