Ben started putting up Maria’s Studio Barn ceiling this morning. He’s trimmed the windows, is blowing insulation through the tops and bottoms of the walls, patching holes, replacing boards. Saturday Maria and I begin scraping the outer walls, in preparation for painting them, We are hoping to get Maria’s studio nice and tight for the winter. She is beginning to feel leaving her current Studio Barn, where she says she felt she was born. It was how we first came together, this barn, where we first talked and fell in love and decided to be together.  Where she became an artist once again. The new place will have its own joys and creativity, I am sure, but we both feel the impact of leaving the Studio Barn on Bedlam Farm, where I saw Maria come to life.