cloud bank

looking south over dummer township  . . . .

twilight over the indian river

golden

i was riding home yesterday as big brother sun slipped back behind the hills on the far side of the otonabee river valley. a chance opening in the leaves of the trees on the west side of the path let some of the last pure golden light onto - well - this beautiful (albeit sneeze-making to some) goldenrod . . .

late august

she put on her prettiest dress . . .

stream

among the small joys:

i stopped for time by this stream, just to listen to it . . .

golden!

goldenrod catching the sun's rays towards the end of another beautiful summer day!

bottled gentian

a new to me indigenous species . . .

i saw this just south of lakefield yesterday . . . .

Bottled gentian (Gentian andrewsii)

waterfall

time beside this little waterfall yesterday . . .

intuitive painting

an intuitive painting workshop with my friend brianna gosselin . . . .


midway through the process . . . .

it is very messy work . . . . 

for a change!

leafy lollipop

a summer picnic

among the small joys . . . stopping in this leafy portal to share a picnic lunch!

just finished . . .

the little things

a ladybird visits one of the pods on my milkweed plants . . .

a new flower in the garden

martha washington's . . .  i hadn't heard of them until we discovered a few in the "leave 'em for dead" bin  . . . we got a great price on them, and slowly but surely they've returned from their state of near goneness . . .    this is the first flower they've produced . . . .

international black cat day

yes it is!
here's mica (the black girl kitten) snuggled in with moksha her striped tabby brother . . .

a new piece

she challenged me:

"create a painting that uses grey scale - and one other colour."

i chose blue . . .

a late summer sky

i love the late summer clouds. so massive and majestic!

studio buddies

when i paint, these two like to keep me company. sometimes resting their paws on my shoulders to watch, sometimes racing across my lap in the middle of one of their scraps . . . .
usually though, they snuggle together and sleep . . .

in my mother's garden - summer 2017

trusting in the good stuff!

among the small joys . . . alternately trusting and ignoring the directions on her cell phone as we made our way across the southern ontario landscape . . .

just finished . . .

this would have been my dad's birthday . . .
i used this day to create a small six by six inch painting . . . .

up above the world so high

i love when the clouds gather into these great fluffy beasts!

storm clouds over warsaw

sitting by the indian river . . . .

finished . . . !

this painting waited patiently for months for me to find time to complete it . . . .

ride to the hills

my favourite part of the ride north through the hills to my home in peterborough is the view from perrytown across the ganaraska forest . . .