A journal of art, photography, spirituality, ideas, books, movies, food, poetry & hope
Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale
Read moreI really enjoyed this book and give it a provisional five stars. It is well written and engaging, about...
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Our Fabulous Church Flowers Today
Read moreMy husband cut down our purple asters and brought them in to avoid being frozen, and we took them...
Garden Harvest Before First Freeze
Read moreIt is going to freeze tonight for the first time this fall so we have brought in most of...
Notes from Richard McKinley’s Pastel Workshop
Read moreYou can see here the notes I took for the class, preserved both for my reference and yours.
New Plein Air Pastel Landscape: Florence Griswold View
Read moreI enjoyed painting this with my pastel class last week at the Florence Griswold Museum. The weather was glorious...
Early Fall Reflections
Read moreThese early fall reflections that I saw around Great Hollow Lake this morning were stunning and pristine ...
Book Review: Dahveed (Series)
Read moreIf you are interested in detailed, fictional accounts of old testament characters, this author is one you should not...
Portraits of Plein Air Artists at Work
Read moreI enjoyed the people in my plein air painting class. Richard McKinley (above) is an accomplished and well known...
Salmon Colored Sunset
Read moreWhat I liked about this sunset was the color was bizarrely unusual, and it was almost like my camera...
In the Presence of Swans
Read moreI had never seen so many swans in one place before, and I wished for my zoom lens, which...
Thumbnails, Notans, and Field Sketches
Read moreIn the class I've been taking with Richard McKinley, he discussed in detail a process he uses to formulate...
Wee Faerie Village
Read moreOur Pastel class painted at the Florence Griswold Museum today and their current outdoors exhibit is the "Wee Faerie...
