8" x 8" oil on board
This is one of the barn's at Vance's Country Guest House in McDowell, VA, where we've spent the week after the 4th of July for the past five years. It's called Yoda's barn because there's a grey cat named Yoda that lives in the barn that my kids are obsessed with. It's a wonder the cat comes around given how much my kids like to pick it up and mess with it. However, putting food out in the barn is one of the many chores the kids are responsible for while staying at the farm, so I guess that's why. I'm not a huge fan of cats - they make my nostrils close up - so of course it rubs itself all over me and jumps on my lap anytime I'm sitting in the yard. Even so, I wish I was sitting in that yard right now. You can see Yoda creeping toward me in the photo below.
