Beatitude

Beatitude

These hydrangeas in my parents’ garden were still blooming the at Christmastime. The leaves reveal the lateness of the season, but most of the flower clusters were as bright and vibrant as mid-summer! It was a mild winter, but still – this colorful? At the end...
Reverence

Reverence

Shop Archival Prints This piece came from Paulettes’ photo – a rhody from her garden.  As we looked through her collection of potentials, I kept suggesting she paint this one.  Finally after the umpteenth “nah,” I sais, “I’ll paint...
March 1, 2017 – Trusting your own rhythm

March 1, 2017 – Trusting your own rhythm

Finding joy and play painting these clear, light colors. I’ve just past the second weekend in a row when I didn’t pick up a paintbrush.  Not once during the four days did I do what I love to do – sit alone with my work and bring something to life with paint on paper....
February 22, 2017 – Making beauty a practice

February 22, 2017 – Making beauty a practice

I did take this one picture of a daffodil that popped up in the front yard while we were away. A few days into this new year I decided I’d post a photo of something that I found beautiful on Instagram every day for the remainder of the year.  We’re not yet two months...
February 15, 2017 – Beauty will save the world

February 15, 2017 – Beauty will save the world

We watch as we rotate away from the sun – a daily event and it still gathers us and draws us to it. Sometime in the past few weeks I heard my coach Lissa say that she just read a book called “Beauty Will Save the World.”  These words – just the title of the book...