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Love Is All

Love is All

If I take nothing else away from this year, it would be this: living with love is the most important thing…

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Shape of Oregon (with trees)

Oregon (with trees)

If Oregon is known for anything, it’s the towering fir and hemlock trees that cover the mountains and valleys with a shady blanket of forest. If this doesn’t say “state in the Pacific Northwest” then I don’t know what does. 🙂 Free Graphic: shape of Oregon (with trees)

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State of Oregon with Beaver icon

Oregon

Someone asked for an outline of the state of Oregon with the blue and gold of the state flag and the beaver icon, the state animal. Here it is, enjoy! Free Graphic: shape of Oregon

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Stack of school books

Books

Ready to study? Here is a stack of school books, see the dreaded math book on the top of the pile… it’s waiting for you. Free Graphic: Image of a stack of schoolbooks

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Green slug with slime trail

Slug

Oh how fun… a slimy little green slithery friend with a coy smile who is looking to peruse your garden before it’s even full grown. Watch out! Free Graphic: Image of a slug

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Spider Friend Painting

Spider Friend

Say hello to my little friend! This painting was inspired by a close encounter of the arachnid kind. Walking outside to get the mail one sunny morning not too long ago, I walked full speed, face first into an occupied orb weaver web. There was a scream (from me, I didn’t hear one from the spider) as the poor web

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The harvest begins

The Start of Harvest Season

Zucchini, Patty Pan Squash, Cucumbers, Tomatillos, Ground Cherries, Okra, Basil and Tomatoes — the first significant haul of the harvest season is upon us! Amazing colors, inspiring art and amazing smells, inspiring cooking. 🙂

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Tree Clad in the Four Seasons

Tree Clad In The Four Seasons

I finally finished my painting series of a tree in a field at different times of the year. I started with winter (a borrowed painting idea), moved on to autumn, then did summer and finally spring. So no kind of order whatsoever. Soon I shall find a nice empty wall to hang the series on! These paintings were painted using

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A peeking cat!

Peeking Cat

I was painting away, and when I looked down, here is a little face looking back at me… peeking cat!

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Swallowtail butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly

This summer we’ve had flurries of fluttering visitors to our garden, and especially to the three butterfly bushes that was have growing in different locations. Most magnificent among the flighty little visitors are these impressive yellow swallowtail butterfly, which could be a fun painting model, if you ask me. Courage, painting friends, courage! If you mess up, just paint over

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Lavender Bachelor Button

Lavender Bachelor Button

Also known as a cornflower, you will normally find these tall, lanky flowers growing wild along the roadside in striking cobalt blue. However, this fellow in our garden is lavender purple! We grow a variety of wildly colored bachelor buttons in among the garden vegetables most years, and this year this one wins a spot on my list of favorites.

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Shades of brown egg

Different Shades of Brown Eggs

We’ve had our little brown and black hens for a year now, and they are still fantastic producers! The gray Sapphire Gem hens turned out to be poor producers after about a year, though, and had problems with weak shells, even with calcium supplements. We lost one of them due to being egg bound, poor sweet girl. So this year

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Bandon Beach Lookout

A Wooden Walk to the Beach

Another selection from our adventures in Bandon, Oregon — this is a very interesting way to walk to a viewpoint! The viewpoint itself looks out over a variety of haystack rocks known as the Face Rock area. One of our very favorite haunts.

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Nasturtium

A Very Paintable Nasturtium

This is a very paintable nasturtium that we found growing in Bandon, Oregon. Oregon coastal towns are shrouded in fog and clouds for most of the year, avoiding the worst of the blistering summer sun as well as the killing winter freezes. Tender, moisture-loving plants like these nasturtiums thrive and flourish, and can even overwinter and shine again the following

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Rassafrassa cat face Timmy

Cat Rassafrassa Snarffy Rassafrassa

Timmy is a ridiculous cat on his best day… and this was probably not his best day. 😀 I was sneaking up on him to take a picture of him pressed face first against the glass door. At the moment I opened the shutter, he whipped around and licked his chops. This ridiculous face was what got captured… I can’t

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