Season's Greetings — Framed PieceThere is a story behind this painting that no other gallery can tell. When Michael Loates was ten years old, he and his father Glen built a snowman together in the yard. While Glen was outside painting the finished snowman, a gust of wind caught one of the mitts and blew it off landing in the snow a short distance away. Glen found this genuinely funny. Rather than fix it, he left it exactly where it fell, and painted the scene just as it was: the