This is my painting of the West Point Lighthouse from the north. I intermediate-finished the painting with no critter and then found a photo I took once of a Tree Swallow in flight and worked from that to have a Tree Swallow flying in front of the viewer.  The Tree Swallows there are an emotional issue two ways. One is that my late great friend Kevin Li put up Purple Martin gourds here and in many places in and around Seattle. The West Point gourds were never used by the Martins but were used by a family of Tree Swallows. Though I never saw one flying over this log, which is still there I believe on the beach immediately north of the Lighthouse, they most certainly could have flown there at any time in the summer–Swallows cover a log of ground in their day’s work of feeding themselves and their kids.