You know the economy is picking up when...............

 ...........a mother hen and her brood of nine chicks can go shopping on Duval Street in Key West.

 Aren't they cute?

Here are several different watercolors I did of the peep's baby daddy! 

No really, spring is hen and baby peep time here in Key West.  Traffic comes to a stop when they decide to cross the road.  These peeps live in the tiny alley behing the gallery.  The day before Easter mom brought them out to the front.  But for some reason they decided to go in the store next store instead of ours?  Maybe it was because we were having our spring open house and it was too noisy.  The rooster watercolors were done in the studio the week before just because I wanted to use my new Holbein watercolors.  My new favorite color is "Opera".