Greg Montgomery

This little color study was for a Dick Francis book, Second Wind, that featured a flight into the eye of a Caribbean hurricane. For me, storms or no storms, the end of March always brings with it an overwhelming desire to go south -- really south.

I've been fortunate to return many times to the coast of Mexico, south of Cancun. The water and beaches and the bougainvillea there are just spectacular. Every time I return, I wonder why I don't just stay.

But, I've never been to the eastern Caribbean for diving and sailing and painting. Now, that sounds like a plan ... right about now!