en sourdine

I had some kind of a dream about the spine last night.  the front of the vertebrae were expanding and I saw a lot of muted color.  and then I woke up and had a seasonal vision;  A wallpaper pattern of buds and branches triumph over winter.  this one's taken me longer than all the other panels put together I believe.  temptation is to make it into one of the others but it just doesn't quite go that way.