Painting by Numbers -- Russ Thibeault

Economist Russ Thibeault makes a living analyzing economic trends but has spent most of his free time this past year studying and painting the environment around tiny Perley Pond in Laconia. The state's 400-year-old oak tree lives there, along with countless other bits of wildlife. His show of watercolors and digital photographs documents the place, and opens at the Belknap Mill in Laconia on Friday September 23.