…my life in the country
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2007
I finally learned how to take close-ups with my new camera and was sneaking up behind my napping cat thinking to take a close-up of his ear… just to see if I could, you know!… when he turned around just as the flash went off. :crazy: They really can jump straight up! lol Poor guy [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2007
This shot was taken though my sunshade window shades. I got the doe and the hummingbird at once. It’s a busy yard. The critters and the insects like my ‘meadow’. I do, too. I have my tomatoes in a plastic wire cage and she hasn’t attempted them yet, since, I suppose there is so many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2007
We Red Hats went to town today and had lunch at the Chinese Restaurant and then when to see John Travolta playing a Momma in Hairspray. He did it rather well. It was an enjoyable movie and an enjoyable day for all us old gals. The college cancelled my morning painting class for lack of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2007
The tomatoes pulled though the hot spell and are producing nicely. We had sliced tomatoes on our bbq-ed hamburgers and the cherry and plum tomatoes dipped in a bit of Ranch for a salad. I sneaked the egg plant into a batch of roasted veggies. He found it a grumped, but ate it! I thought [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2007
Sis says this plant is a volunteer in her garden this year & we don’t know what it is. A very large bush, probably 6+ feet tall and nearly that across. It’s loaded with this bright red/orange flowers, the undersides of which are a golden color. As a cut flower it is doing excellently. We [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2007
Sis is concentrating on her water color landscape while I sneak a picture. She says she doesn’t think wet-on-wet WC is going to be her ‘thing’. She just needs practice, I think she did pretty good. We did a couple of still-life’s after this landscape that turned out quite nice, if I do say so. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2007
Sis wanted oil painting lessons. I haven’t touched a canvas in nearly two years but the paints hadn’t all dried up & I hadn’t forgotten everything I ever knew about it! We turned out a few practice pieces. Tomorrow we get serious! I didn’t realize how much I missed painting. Oh yes, I painted the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2007
Sis wanted oil painting lessons. I haven’t touched a canvas in nearly two years but the paints hadn’t all dried up & I hadn’t forgotten everything I ever knew about it! We turned out a few practice pieces. Tomorrow we get serious! I didn’t realize how much I missed painting. Oh yes, I painted the [...]