Creative Portraits

A straw hat, carefully woven, doesn't do much to protect her blond hair from the falling specks of ice that drift from the dreary Maine skies that day.  This isn't a hat for freezing weather, this is a hat ready to battle the nasty western heat, the scorching summer afternoons. Her heart yearns for the wild west, for the horse back riding, for the cow boy boots.  She looks solemnly out the window, thoroughly disappointed by the newest accumulation of snow. Maybe one day, she thinks, she'll be able to proudly sport such a hat - if this New England winter ever ends.