Category Archives: gardens and flowers

Sunday, after dinner

The light is gone. I may have overdone on pasta. I went out on the porch to catch the last hummingbirds, listen to birds and visit with the plants. Now that they’re in their summer homes, sometimes they look like they’re visiting each other. Continue reading

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How far can it go?

I worked with this little watercolor painting tonight from the spontaneous watercolor landscape workshop. Continue reading

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Spontaneous Watercolor Class Part Three

I’ll have to go back and watch part two again because in part three, it seemed doing wet on dry was quite different – and it worked great to make funky little edges and shapes Continue reading

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Saturday in the Yard

Quiet Saturday with an early start. The flies (and if I have to be truthful – inchworms) are out in full force so it takes some doing to sit outside and paint in the yard but I managed to do this. Continue reading

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TGIF – Flowers

Had a nice outing with Mom to Becker’s in town for some hanging baskets and bedding plants. It was hotter than we thought but we made it home with no one wilting! Here’s one of the coleus I got. Continue reading

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