Thursday, August 31, 2017

cloud bank

looking south over dummer township  . . . .


Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

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 . . .


Monday, August 28, 2017

late august

she put on her prettiest dress . . .


Sunday, August 27, 2017

stream

among the small joys:

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


Saturday, August 26, 2017

golden!

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


Friday, August 25, 2017

bottled gentian

a new to me indigenous species . . .

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

Bottled gentian (Gentian andrewsii)



Thursday, August 24, 2017

waterfall

time beside this little waterfall yesterday . . .




Wednesday, August 23, 2017

intuitive painting

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


midway through the process . . . .


it is very messy work . . . . 
for a change!


Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Monday, August 21, 2017

a summer picnic

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


Sunday, August 20, 2017

Saturday, August 19, 2017

the little things

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


Friday, August 18, 2017

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 . . . .


Thursday, August 17, 2017

international black cat day

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





Wednesday, August 16, 2017

a new piece

she challenged me:
"create a painting that uses grey scale - and one other colour."
i chose blue . . .


Tuesday, August 15, 2017

a late summer sky

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



Monday, August 14, 2017

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 . . .



Sunday, August 13, 2017

Saturday, August 12, 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 . . .







Friday, August 11, 2017

just finished . . .

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


Thursday, August 10, 2017

up above the world so high


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




Wednesday, August 9, 2017

storm clouds over warsaw

sitting by the indian river . . . .





Tuesday, August 8, 2017

finished . . . !

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



Monday, August 7, 2017

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 . . .