Whew. Not much time for painting or keeping up lately. This weekend though was a long weekend, with Canada Day on Monday. we had the first full burst of summer weather. I got up and painted Saturday and Sunday morning, first time in weeks, and...
It started a few weeks ago one day when I pulled up the driveway and was greeted and treated to an explosion of song and tweets and burbling, and with that one of my swallow family announced he was back from his winter away and he had stuff...
This one was scary! A commission.I might have had a bit of a panic attack in the middle.But challenges are good right? And mom and dad were happy with the result. And so were the boys, who are now big guys.Whew. Breathe out.It was so...
"Come on, come on, come on. Throw the stick, throw the stick...
So yesterday I gave my hair a deep treatment. (Don't stop reading!! It's not really about my hair!!!)First I washed it and got it all smelling fresh and grapefruity.Then I gifted myself a long tough workout and got my hair so sweated up there was...
Although I'm no stranger to deep thoughts (everyone who knows me, you can stop rolling your eyes now), sometimes I feel like I should be moved to deep thoughts by all of the sights around me. Metaphors and similes should be a constant stream in my head.These posts above...
So this is what I want to know. Did the mussel who created this gorgeous shell feel those little bumps inside and let it spoil his day? Did he do what I would have done in my only-some-things perfectionist way and insist on making another? Did he...
What do you get when urging a teenager to get out into the sun and do something?I live with a sassafras.And a blue cat....
Yay! A day to paint!And with spring (perhaps even summer, if I wish real hard?) showing itself I'm taking a swing into flowers. These are chives.This is an echinacea flower that I painted huge before, but this time it's much smaller.I really enjoyed playing with...
The other morning I sat down at my desk in a big funk, an off start to the day, my head running in circles, a bunch of things needing doing, and a jumble of ideas over what to do first. I pulled out my little...