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A hand-painted greeting card. Sumi ink, card paper, Chinese chip colors for the red;  handwriting with a calligraphy brush. This is one of the 187 cards I made for this holiday season. Actually, only about 3/4 of them are hand-painted -- the rest 1/4 are scanned&printed from my original paintings (I had to cheat  a little, he-he -- otherwise I would never be able to finish this job before New Year! :)))

first sunbeam --
a mouse carries a seed
of the coming spring

Merry Christmas, everyone! :)