In the past several weeks a very close, long-standing friendship took a painful turn and in the past few days, has very possibly ended. We’ve been friends for more than 25 years and have been through so much together. It’s hard for me to really grasp that six weeks... I found these roses in a corner of a friend’s garden. Yummy tropical-punch colors, and a combination of the back side of one rose – no less compelling than the front – and the ¾ view of another, catching the light just so. In the early spring of 2016,... 
My sorta perfect, getting there painting Last week Paulette, one of our Thursday faithfuls, forwarded to me an email with a plea for my help in responding to it. She’d been offered an opportunity to do a demonstration for a watercolor organization. First, I must say... 
I’m enjoying painting what I’m in the mood to paint – I’m loving being in the world of these roses. It’s been over two months since I promised to paint every day, and I haven’t missed a day yet. Though one day in January, all I did was paint... 
starting a new painting of roses I am a thought-ful person – I mean to say not so much that I’m kind and I think of others – which I do aim to be and do – but that I am full of thoughts. I’ve been watching myself think, and am realizing how incredibly busy it is... 