Late June Post Card Art

Acrylic Paint Scratching

Acrylic Paint Smoosh Background

Alcohol Inks on Photo Paper

An Attempt At Straw-Blown Art & Strawberries- Update

This turned out to be more difficult than I had thought it would be, perhaps because I used acrylic pants on a textured card stock background.  The paint didn't want to move!  When I tried thinning it down with water it was then too runny.  I'm wondering if ink might work better, and on a different type of paper.  Time will tell...

But now, it's the tail end of strawberry picking season and I have to see whether there are any berries left to pick.  After several years of not putting up preserves.  I hope I still remember how!

This bowl is 3" across at the top... 

In less than two hours I picked nine heaping quart baskets full of strawberries.  Later, I put up two batches and a double batch of strawberry jam.  mmmmmm  It helped that it was a cool, breezy, low-humidity day.

Art with Gold Touches

I had fun making up some of these designs 

for an active group swap:

Some Red Yellow Blue Art

Mock Orange at Dusk

The air is fragrant with the perfume 

from these beautiful white flowers 

on the shrubbery.

It occurred to me that if we receive a heavy rainfall

tomorrow, these blossoms will probably

be scattered on the ground like confetti...

 

The bee agrees with me...

New Kitchen Window Curtains

After two or three weeks of renovations,

 it's good to start getting the house back in order.

Having the "nest" disrupted is a bit

stress-producing, but worth it

after it's done.

These were fun to make...

Baby Robins Outside My Window...

First, there were three...

Always hungry

You can't see me!

Only one left, what happened to #2 and #3?

Unexpected Lovely Iris

I just found this delicate Iris among the Hosta's:

A Glimpse of Nature

More Poppy Pictures

Rhododendron Closer To Home

Robin on Messy Nest  Above Eye Level