Pop It With Some Green!

One of my high school art teachers, Mrs. Pendegrass ("Pende," as she was called), would look at someone's landscape painting and say, "Pop it with some green!" Then she'd grab that person's brush and dip it in some paint and dab it here and there and say, "See? Pop it! Just pop it, just like that...." And then she'd pretty much finish the painting.

Well, spring has popped it in my backyard. See? Soon the kudzu will take over, and the "pop" will be more of a "blob." Kudzu would not make Pende proud. But these sweet little trees? It's almost as if she grabbed the brush from spring and demonstrated how it's really done. It's that good.