Inspiration – West Coast – (new paintings added)

west coast #2

Our trip ( husband and I) brought me back to the ocean, nature and the paintbrush.

Ucluelet and our BostromsBandB.com made it happen.

From here I plan to SPRAY out into all directions, please, make it a habit to come back and see the progress.

Do not forget and give me your opinion, it . . . → Read More: Inspiration – West Coast – (new paintings added)

Earth Day – any day +water

#057 holding the power

just  2 paintings with mother earth in mind

ocean and wind power   size: 24×30″      acrylic on canvas

sea detail:

 

Flower in power  size: 12×22″   acrylic on canvas

 this abstract painting is for earth day and the importance of water

 title: #057 – holding the power

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Going –going – green

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What do we really understand or mean when we say “GOING GREEN”?

Less garbage, less plastic, less house, less junk food?

It means a lot of different things to different people!

Smaller house? No plastic at all? not following every trend which comes a long? Less electricity- no hairdryer, no toaster oven?

Many things . . . → Read More: Going –going – green

The colour of Cooking – Gardening and Painting!

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Can anybody think of a better way to fill your day?

Cooking:

If my memory serves me right I was only 13 when I thought I could cook a better dinner than my mother did – teenager –eh.

(But I do not remember how it turned out, lucky me.)

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“WINTER ACONITE”

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I am not a gardener – but I love our garden- love working in the garden –  trial and error is the game

The # 13 is my favourite number, born on the 13th, married on the 13th still living and still married!!!! —– but never won the lottery on the 13th  ( or not at . . . → Read More: “WINTER ACONITE”

2012 – Gone, but not forgotten

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Seems to me that was a very short year, did I oversleep a few weeks or something???? We did a little travelling,  , a bit visiting  -   a bit doing nothing and long hours in the garden  - as in ——– planting,weeding,weeding,resting,sleeping,watching things grow,watching birds making out

Had some sick days, had . . . → Read More: 2012 – Gone, but not forgotten

The Nature Effect

Before spring#2

I find it fascinating that I paint my paintings from following the happenings around me. In wintertime I tend to think more about the things I read in the News papers or about pictures I always wanted to paint and never did get around to do it – but now – at this time . . . → Read More: The Nature Effect

THE GREEN SEED EFFECT

THE GREEN SEED EFFECT

What do we or my readers out there in cyber land really think when we say “go green”

Fresh strawberries in winter, fresh blueberries for Christmas or

-      eat what is in season and what grows in our neighborhood?

Or pay less at Walmart but replace it more often (because it only lasts one . . . → Read More: THE GREEN SEED EFFECT

Have a very Happy Christmas

in the Kootenays

AND A SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR

every one needs a holiday from it all – hope to see you in 2013 – stay with me – good things to come.

Dad always said:

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My Dad always said: Der Mensch lebt nicht vom Brot allein— es kann auch Wurst und Schinken sein -

 Man does not live by bread alone, sometimes enjoy what you have; there is so much beauty in this world.

Come to think of it, he had a lot of such sayings, ( Papa und . . . → Read More: Dad always said: