long shadows Tag

Look who I found as I headed out today.  That's the inside of my front door he's hanging onto.  (In my head, because of past visitors, my brain starts playing "Dweller on the Threshold" by Van Morrison.  Just happens.)   I believe he got there...

Isn't summer exquisite?I've been working very hard lately, very little time for painting.That's OK.  My time will come.  Have been avoiding blogging here a bit as I am supposed to be a painter and that's hard to blog when I am painting so little but...

On one side, real cat.  All feisty and hopped up on spring, begging to be let outside then desperate to come back in, bombing around the house, jumping up on sills and ledges.  Full of the devil.The other side.  Shadow cat.  Quieter, her job to...

This little tree on the left  -- really just an overachieving weed -- always irks me when I walk into my kitchen.  Over the summer it has grown up beside the house right outside the window.  (The filthiness of my window doesn't help the situation.)...

...I did it, I did it, I did it!I swam on Thanksgiving day.  October 8.  See proof:Way back in August I didn't think there was a chance.  Weather helped a lot.Consider the magnificent swimming season of Summer 2012 officially closed.I think....