Dry, dry, dry it is. This little frog has patience but no rain in the forecast for another week or so.Pacific Chorus Frog
Dry, dry, dry it is. This little frog has patience but no rain in the forecast for another week or so.Dry, dry, dry it is. This little frog has patience but no rain in the forecast for another week or so.In the Elemental Studio
What's been going on lately? Well I sold "The Threading of Amethysts". I'm glad I remembered to take a photo before I shipped it off!
Autumn Walk
And still the weather holds. Everything the colour of bleached gold in the meadow.
Earth Flowers
I found out which painting got accepted into the Sidney Fine Art Show! It was Earth Flowers. (One of my favs...shhh don't tell the other paintings.)
"Meadow" Painting
Another painting I had underway, but since I have succumbed to an overload of paint/paint medium fumes I will be taking a hiatus from oil painting. I guess small increments add up over time. I think I would have not used the medium quite as much, if at all, had there been a warning label on the bottle of Liquin. But there was nothing. It took many months of erratic symptoms for me to check out the safety sheet with the listed chemicals. (Remember kids, just because everyone else is using it...) Gulp. I might as well have been huffing Pam cooking spray all this time.
So it shall sit waiting its turn to be completed, if ever. In the meantime, I can get on with other projects I have in mind, so it isn't necessarily a bad thing... except for the brain-damage. I kid. (Do I?) After a period of time of detoxing my body, I'll try using walnut oil for a medium (linseed just seems way too flammable to me) and hope I can go back to oil painting and so this little gem can get finished.
In Meadows
Sitting in the long grass in the shade of a Big Leaf Maple. Dragonflies and Turkey Vultures flash their wings of silver. The field grass has turned to gold, end of summer days.
Thistle Down - Always A Favourite Topic
Summer Days
I've been a little lax with the posts lately but it is true that summer has come to town. There is much outdoorsy things happening such as lying in the meadows and gazing at the sky, lying on the grass in my yard and watching the bees and my all time favourite- lying under a shady cedar branch at the seashore. So you can see how truly busy I am.
Of course I am planning many things while I am prostrate. Oh yes, ideas and new website plans and prints and all manner of things. Right now it is all hush-hush in my head but I will let you know bits and pieces as I go along.
Poppy
The Garden Gardens Itself
The garden overfloweth. I left my little garden area to its own devices. I put in the perennials I had brought from the old garden, threw in some sunflower and nasturtium seeds and ignored it. I wanted to see how well it would fare on its own and if indeed there would be enough sun for anything to flourish.
I needn't have worried. Everything took off, even the grapes finally got in on the act though I still might move them to another spot. The rose bush is not happy. I do realize that and that too will have to be moved to an area with more sun. I am pleased it survived the move though and that is all that matters.
I tell Maggie not to walk through the nasturtiums as the bees are humming in the blooms and wouldn't want any sudden misfortune to happen either to dog or bee.
So she sits and waits while I admire the tumble.
Yawn. Okay. One more pic.
Ya think I planted too many nasturtium seeds?
Quite different from when I first arrived and it was a chicken pen.
The Raptors
And although 'tis always sad to see such lovely birds in cages or tethered, it is good to know there is a place for injured animals that can not be released back into the wild. Here, they get cared for and exercised and take on the roll of educators. It is good to see a child with a hawk or owl on their arm instead of a gameboy in their hand. You know that's going to set a great neural pathway in the brain.