Summer Road Trip: day 2
On our second day of our road trip adventure we awoke to sunlight filtering through the towering trees. We were soon up brewing a pot of perked coffee on the camp stove and planning our strategy for...
View Article¡Que ricos los betaveles!
I am surprised at how many people don’t like beets. I love them! My sister’s family has a recipe for a jello beet salad that has become ‘my’ beet salad since I began to make it for Thanksgiving years...
View Article¿Como se dice eggplant?
Although not very big our first eggplant from our garden is beautiful! This evening I’m going to roast it up and make eggplant sandwiches for dinner. But before and cutting up or cooking of...
View ArticleInspiration
My creative soul ebbs and flows in no particular fashion. I might spend months exploring a new medium or just hours. I will let a passion sleep while a new one awakens in me. So goes it now. I’ve...
View Article27 julio
Yesterday evening the light outside reminded me so much of a summer evening I spent in Sorrento, Italy five years ago. That day my friend Stephanie and I had hired a small boat to take us out into the...
View ArticleArt Weekend Captured in Artist Journal
My dear friend Dianne (Desireé) invited me to tag along with her to Long Beach this past weekend. She was going to be busy with a quilt show so I had lots of time to myself. On the way there … Continue...
View ArticleGarden Tomato
The first one seemed overworked to me so I did another one on heavier Kilimanjaro 300# cp watercolor paper. I like it better:)
View ArticleUn Tomate Verde
What do you do with a green tomato? While picking the first of our beefsteak tomatoes, two unripe green ones also came off the vine. I’ve been observing and sketching them for a couple of days now....
View ArticleChildhood Memories of Crystal Cove and a sketch
After weeks of a wonderfully mild summer, the heat slammed us yesterday with temperatures of 108 and high humidity. There was no option but to pack up, stop for picnic supplies and head to the beach....
View ArticlePainted Birdhouses
This week I finished off another roll of B/W film (Illford Delta Pro 400) in my Rolleiflex TLR. I had fun shooting using some new filters I got last week at a camera show. The birdhouse in the tree...
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