It may look a bit weird, but this photo is my little bag of pressed curds, hanging there dripping off their last little bit of whey.
This poinsettia, in particular, looks as though it’s been painted already!
What a dashing fellow, and possibly a good subject for a future painting. 🙂
A natural fence of cat tails dividing fields… could be a good inspiration for a painting.
I was painting away, and when I looked down, here is a little face looking back at me… peeking cat!
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
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.
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.
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
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
The Western White Trillium (also sometimes called Wakerobin or toad lily) is a white lily that springs up from the damp forest floors of the pacific northwest U.S. and Canada in early to mid spring. Each plant has three green leaves, and each flower has three bright white petals. As the blossoms age, they turn from their brilliant white to
I know… I know… it’s a little early for spring. But I noticed someone was looking around the site for this cheerful cherry blossoms photo and I thought I’d add it back real quick. So here ya go. I have this one in my “maybe I’ll try painting it” folder, so it was handy. 🙂 Don’t be fooled… there is
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
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