Spring/Summer 2013 Cover?

Common Ground Review's art editor, Lorna Ritz, had a grant to paint sand dunes in Cape Cod while she stayed in a shack without power or hot water.  We thought the ocean might be a great cover for the Spring/Summer issue.  (This June we are busily catching up on a year's backlog, selecting poems for the issue, debating, contacting people...and our contest judge, Iain Haley Pollock, is doing his part, too!)

For now, here is the possible cover, and some excerpts from Lorna's diary about her time on the dunes:

1 May.   It was pure joy to set my easel up on the cliff again. My entire color pallet changed from lush Western MA. I had to mix the colors together to very specifically find what color this place is. The ocean constantly moves and changes.

2 May By now I have lost track of days… Yesterday I got lost in the dunes again. What should have taken me 1 + hrs. to return to my shack turned out to be many more hours. I again got disoriented and lost my sightlines as I descended deep into the crevices of the dunes; when I climbed back up in sand, my sightlines were gone, so, I walked the wrong way. ... Jesse said , ‘Me and my wife never get lost. “ He added, 'you should have map quested the dunes."  (Impossible, in this case: I even had a National Park Service map which is of no help when disoriented).  A P'Town artist told me that people get lost all the time, many having to sleep outside in the night, in the cold, because they can’t find their way out. It was my instinct that got me ‘found’ each time.

2 May Today was my happiest day (not getting lost)!    Last night before I went to sleep, I lay flat under the mysterious sky full of brilliant stars, listening to ocean waves. The combination has put me in a good mood for a lifetime. I did another ocean drawing, paying attention only to the waves coming up onto the dunes. !!!!