Trail of the Painted Ponies Song of the Cardinal Ornament

One of the more delightful holiday moments of this talented artist's past - one that captured the beauty of Christmas for her and inspired "Song of the Cardinal" - is the memory of a scene glimpsed out a window on a winter morning, when two cardinals, a red male and a yellow female, joyous spots of color set against a somber gray day, perched on snow-laden evergreen boughs and sang to each other.