Squash Blossom

We may have veggies in the garden soon.

After the Rain.....

Spring Quartette

Flower pot

The color is off in this pic. The top really is a shade lighter than the bottom blue.

Trees

Project...

For a client....

Tiger Lily

Of Course, I would paint a Tiger Lily while at Auburn.

Those of you who know me, know how old this must be.

"Back in the day" I would paint fabric squares and make pillows to sell.

This one never made it to a pillow.

Something Sweet...

Red Velvet Cupcakes...that I made this morning

Recipe found here.....

Valentine Find

From Ebay.

A quite colorful Carl Tait valentine Hanky.

I use to work for Carl. He called me Jenni Penny and Miss Butterfly.

Pair of Pictures

Hanky....

A little pretty that is on Ebay. I Heart it, but I have no need for a Valentine Hanky.

Grass -n- Snow

Stamps

Those of you who have ever received cards and letters from me know, I always treat you with a cool stamp. (you should be saving those...hint,hint.) This is the style I bought today, when I discovered I had used up all of my Jamestown stamps at Christmas.

The Beautiful Blooms set gave me a bit of Spring Fever. ( a little early for that.)

Available on line at USPS.

Sadly, the VERY cool triangle Settlement of Jamestown stamps look to be sold out.

Take a look.

I found this to be very interesting...

Patchwork fields

Thinking about my bottle tree.

I've been wanting a bottle tree for a long, long, time. The first one I ever saw was way back when I was at AU. I kinda had a bottle tree (bush)while we were at Bell Road, and I moved my small collection of Blue bottles. After almost loosing the collection to a clean up effort, (I can see where they may look like drunken garbage)I decided I better plan my bottle tree here at ThirteenEleven. Our yard here is still a bit of an overgrown kudzu jungle, and I think there is a fine line from a bottle tree looking junky rather than artsy, cool, and historic so I am not sure the timing is right for the tree. These are some Ideas that I like, I tend to favor the more organic looking trees over the post looking trees, and I definitely like the all cobalt blue trees over the multi colored trees.

Winter Wonderland

View from a Restroom Window in Banff Springs

Russian Icons

Yesterday, I decided to drop by the local Art Museum. (Originally a jail.)

I went to see a private collection of Russian Icons.

I thought I would share these snaps from my cell phone of the one and only.......

SAINT NICOLAS

a little closer.......... he looks like "the one".
this representation must be a younger version...
and here........ another representation of Saint Nick....

It is hard to believe these are egg tempera on wood/board and several centuries old.

There are actually a number of Russian Icons listed on ebay......

You have to see this blog....DailyCoyote

All of the photographs are copyrighted (or I would show one here)but there are some incredible pictures that tell the story of raising a coyote, Charlie, in the wilds of Wyoming. Love it!!!!

http://dailycoyote.blogspot.com