I promised my son-in-law, Jeremy, a painting for Xmas - or rather I gave him an IOU for a painting which didn't exist at the time. It's for the dining room in their house in Houston and was inspired by a John Singer Sargent italian watercolor .
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7vX69YexdSs4HJj17NfVU9kbgI96DyFxg5JInprDjwfrBCmMjhlm7K2_tFIG5ZnvyOgs_d1hLiQPWrTkywre0IPe84R6n2KUUTXHF8HBikILw6_jI464Yjv4nXeaWA-ahJQYItUfmBuQ/s400/jeremy+iou.jpg)
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I am also sending a smaller oil I bought several years ago - by Shirley Meir - it reminded me then of my mother's garden and now, I like how it looks together with my own Italian cypress.