Saturday, April 28, 2007Anniversary Bouquet Randy remembered that I wanted dogwood and Redbud to decorate the church for our wedding and nothing was blooming the end of April that year, it was one of the late winter ones, unlike this year. So the other day he brought me an anniversary bouquet that he cut in the woods on the way home. Wasn't that sweet?! 24 years! How time flies! 
posted @ 04:32 PM PST [link] Tuesday, April 24, 2007Painting outdoors This is Joy Wiltsee, a local watercolor artist of some renown, giving us a workshop today. We painted some local-ish scenery in a lovely spot down-river. for those few of you familiar with the area, it was at Big Bar on the Trinity, west of Weaverville on 299. A nice lady, a nice lesson, a lovely setting, and lunch was also nice. I managed to roll with my chair down hill, showing my wrong side to the group and managing some nice bruises but all in all, a pleasant day. My painting isn't finished so I'm not posting it here yet. Joy says that when you are within 10 minutes of being done, go put it under the bed for a week, then when you get it out you'll see exactly what you need to do to finish! Seems like good advice to me.
posted @ 05:06 PM PST [link] A little still life  We got back from San Rafael last evening and barely unloaded the cars. Randy is unloading the tools out of mine so I can go on my filed trip later and he can go to work earlier. I brought this little bouquet back from his Dad's place. I will see if it'll root tho I don't expect them to winter over. Never saw ice plant used a a house plant, but it might work, may start a new rage!  Randy has his 'new' truck. Our first diesel, but it has all the stuff he's been wanting and the price was good. His old one was only running on three 'squirrels' and they were not feeling well any more so it was time. But it's good to be home. Sis is coming down later this week to spend a few days. She hasn't been down in quite a long time now so I am looking forward to that. Oh yeah... the artichokes are also from Dad's. They are really pretty thistle plants. Looks like the sun might shine today, which is good because it's al fresco painting today! No, lets see... my artists vocab says it's plein aire... I think!  posted @ 08:31 AM PST [link] |
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