Sunset On Indian Lake

18" x 18" Oil on Canvas "Sunset On Indian Lake": Available

Just finished, this will be available for sale later this evening.

It's an awesome 70 degrees here today!! In November!!! It smells and feels like spring.

Sky Watch Wave

I took this photo last night. I picked it for SkyWatch Friday because it looks like waves rolling in. The light was what caught my attention in the first place. That and the awesome color. This one is worth a double click!

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Just Peachy

My SkyWatch Friday offering this week is this peachy sunset. tonight everything in the sky and water looked like peach haze. We REALLY don't have all orange sunsets around here, just seems that way.

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Sky Watch Friday

My post for Sky Watch Friday is this stunning orange sunset. I had been outside just a few minutes before and had in fact just found sky watch friday online but didn't think the sky tonight was worthy. Then moments later I noticed this!! The sky over Indian Lake wanted to be highlighted this week!! :) click on the sky watch friday logo to see other great sky photos!!

Donuts and Sunsets

"Party On A Donut" Sold


Just finished! A tribute to the glazed donut with additional icing and jimmies. What more can we add to this already sweet treat?? I've done this in oil on a 10 x 10 canvas so the subject is just a bit oversized. Why I picked donuts with the complication of jimmies, only a good counselor could tell you. It was not simple but I do like a challenge and I got what I wanted. It was fun.

It will be available on E-bay beginning Monday evening. Since I just finished it 15 minutes ago it's still quite wet.

Another beautiful sunset on Indian Lake.

Art and Life

Early evening yesterday I looked up and saw this heron trying to land in the tree outside my window. He or she quickly decided that wasn't such a great idea and took a graceful glide to the dock three houses over. His wingspan was incredible. It was gently raining out and he posed for me standing there on that dock for awhile.

I mentioned the other day that we had two baby Robins nesting together. (See previous blog.) You can see one fairly clearly in the above photo. The other little guy is to the far left sticking his face up on the edge of the nest. They are not siblings and their mothers come one at a time to feed them. The younger one lets the older one sit higher and sometimes we see the one sitting higher get his butt lifted up above the nest. We know the one below him is moving position. The older baby has more feathers and acts as a nice shelter for the younger it seems. They are getting along well from what we can tell. No squabbles. They are loved!!

We receive a lovely scenic painting from nature each evening. You'd have to be pretty jaded to not take a look to see what's being offered.

You might wonder why this being labeled an art blog, there isn't more art. Well I'm hard at work on 9 paintings. Everything from birds to donuts and I hope to have them ready to unveil shortly.

Happy Father's Day!! You too Dad.

Have You Seen My 27 Goslings?

.....said the mother goose.





Well YES I have!!! A few nights ago as my husband and I were leaving our neighborhood Ron spotted what looked like dozens of baby geese in a neighbors yard. There were only 2 adult geese on watch. If you are around geese enough you learn that the little ones are very closely watched and protected by both parents. Babies don't hang out with other families. You know exactly how many kiddies each pair has as they swim off. The children are usually between the parents in a fairly straight line.




Now for the most part we see anywhere from 2 to 6 offspring but this... well this was quite a deal. Today they showed up in our yard and try as we might we had a hard time counting all the way to 27. At first we thought it was 23, then 25 and finally in some photos I took tonight I figured out it's 27. I have many pictures to back that up.




The first 2 photos were taken by Ron this morning and I captured them swimming into the sun tonight. I WILL be using their cute little profiles in paintings really soon. I feel incredibly blessed on days like these, just to witness something so beautiful.



Sunset on Indian Lake Saturday night.