It’s New Years Eve! Tonight may be a night for wine and painting, or snacks and movies, but one thing is for sure; by midnight, I’m going to be looking a lot like tired kitty here. 🙂 Hope you have a happy New Year’s Eve and that your 2021 is much happier and prosperous than 2020 has been. Cheers!
Here’s a jump back in time a couple of autumns ago. I had crawled into the greens bed to weed and when I sat down and looked up, this is what I saw… a group of tired sunflowers full of seeds, peering down from me from a late afternoon sky. I took a photo so that I could paint it
This is an original painting I created of a dragon curling around and giving the onlooker a good stare down. Medium is acrylic on canvas. It started from a photo that I took of a pale sunset behind a lump of a tree… But things always seem to go sideways with painting. No tree… thought something more interesting than a
This is a painting loosely based on an idea that I borrowed from another artist — a glowing holiday tree in the snow. Medium is acrylic on canvas. I have gifted this one in particular to my parents for their holiday painting collection. I may try painting one with multi-colored lights next and see how it turns out. Please feel
Its Christmas, and I hope that joy and love are ruling your day! May the dreary times of 2020 pass you by and be forgotten and the good times be what you remember (because there is always good in there somewhere). Peace for you and peace on Earth!
I’ve been leaving the T.V. off and trying to tune out the craziness of the world, maybe to try and find some inner peace for the holidays before we dive into another crazy year of Covid and all of the other dramas. How successful I have really been at not worrying over things that I can’t change, I am not
Oregon is a land of many trees, and Christmas trees are no exception! This particular tree was in Silverton, a small idyllic town on the edge of the Willamette Valley, just a little way from the base of the cascade mountains. On a normal year, people flock to the small town during Christmas to tour the massive holiday village at
Someone created a winter wonderland and it looks like somewhere Alice may have been before a time or two! This was one of my favorite places at the Oregon Garden’s holiday wonderland. We enjoyed a stroll down a lighted path filled with glowing mushrooms, flowers and tree trunks while drinking hot apple cider and listening to Christmas music. It may
An illuminated swan swims in the Christmas light water garden at the Village Green Resort holiday bazaar in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The fountain area became a lighted water garden for the holidays the last few years. (It will be going this year too, but like so many other people, we won’t be able to attend, so I’m sharing a bit
This glowing water lily was among the many wonders in the Christmas Village at the Village Green in Cottage Grove one year in the recent past when we visited. The water garden was beautiful to behold and the kids insisted on posing for photos in front of every single display. After stuffing ourselves with treats and hot chocolate, it was
This is a mesmerizing tunnel of Christmas Lights at the Village Green’s holiday village in Cottage Grove. We have visited a couple of times since it began and each year it gets more elaborate and interesting. This year there were two lighted tunnels for the kids to zoom down at full-on warp speed! While we won’t be going this year,
What wonder to discover a whole ceiling full of rainbow umbrellas surrounded by dripping icicle lights! All of the little ones around could not stop staring in disbelief! This reminds me that the wonder of the holidays does not have to surround Christmas specifically — Santa, flying reindeer, candy canes, Christmas trees and presents are all part of the popular
The kids danced out of frame for long enough for me to snap a photo of this giant Christmas tree and some huge presents! We felt like mice on the floor in the living room. (Hope the cats don’t notice us!… 😉 ) This tree was so tall that it could be seen blocks away towering over the rooftops. I
Everyone needs Christmas presents! Even cats! Last year we wrapped catnip and toys up for our crazy cats to open… of course we couldn’t set the special presents out until after the Humans opened their presents, otherwise EVERY present would have been opened by cats. (Yes, there have been years when the cats have “helped” by opening all of the
A couple of years back I got a set of claw gloves from one of my good friends, and I love them! These are an excellent gift for any gardener, but especially for gardeners (like myself) who have a hard time manipulating small garden tools (like hand trowels) while wearing gloves. These allow you to get in there and loosen
