It was mid-day when I chanced on a group of scrubby-looking trees and underbrush.  I stopped and made a quick sketch and  took a few photos.   Back in my studio I transferred my sketch to a self-prepared surface.  Then I composed what I thought would be a good painting.  It just didn't  work.  With great mental anguish, I fretted over it.  I worked and re-worked it.  Finally, I became frustrated and I tossed it in the trash.  As it happens, the trash in my studio doesn't get dumped very often, which  was fortunate for me.   A few weeks after my rejecting this painting, and as I prepared to take the studio trash to a container for trash pick-up, I  noticed a part of the painting that wasn't too bad.  So laid it flat on my drafting table.  It was a bit warped.  Then I took an 11x14 piece of glass and slid it over the surface until I found what I felt could be saved.  I cut away the unwanted sections of the painting.    What was left was a rebirth - a brand new painting.  It was now a vertical painting with a raised horizon and a flowering desert plant. Here's the amazing part of this story....this little 11x14 section that I saved (along with nine other works), was selected from my FASO website by the editor of Pratique des Arts Magazine,  a French publication, as a feature article in their August/September Issue.  That's not all!  International Artist Magazine also selected it to be in their August/September Issue.  Who would have thought!!!!  Now, when I have the urge to trash a painting, I don't.  Instead, I  stick it in a box marked "SECOND CHANCE".