February 2, 2016 – Fifty shades of love

February 2, 2016 – Fifty shades of love

Nearly every Sunday, my folks host a dinner for us – their four kids and our families. My dad plans and cooks – with help from us. And lately, my mom has been making homemade bread and rolls – there’s hardly a better smell, than that of yeast bread baking in the...
January 26, 2016 – Awareness and attention are EVERYTHING!

January 26, 2016 – Awareness and attention are EVERYTHING!

A small painting I started so I could attend to my painting commitment while I traveled. This is the result of four painting sessions – two of them in airports! Somewhere along the way – a really, really long time ago – an idea got ahold of me that the...
Firelight

Firelight

This painting has quite a story. I’ve written a whole post about it in my journal. I started it on a trip to Kauai in 2013 then abandoned it until early in 2015 when I realized it needed a color scheme change. What was mostly red turned into a lot more pink and...
Juicyfruit

Juicyfruit

On a sunny Sunday morning, driving home from an overnight at a campout my husband goes on every August, in my peripheral vision on the side of River Road, were these grapes. Their orange color stood out – orange grapes?  I pulled over on the lumpy-grass shoulder...