Saturday Morning Sketch

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Painter Lady

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Baby skunk in nest. Deemed a nuisance species, the skunk doesn’t have a great (as in positive) reputation for anything. Regardless, I see all species as connected and requiring management. The link I’ve provided gives sound advice, I think.

Just deliberating about how to paint a baby leather back turtle in a nest. It seems to me that turtles make more sense in multiples, so I’m deciding if I’m going to paint more than one in a nest. I’m suffering a bit of a back injury recently due to a hard fall on ice two weeks ago, so my days are quiet days, but very fulfilling. My cousin Margy has headed south to Arizona, so this is a bit of a retreat…quiet…Rita Macneil Christmas music…toast in the toaster…hot coffee…and more quiet.

For those of you who are watching for these wee guys…this.

Morning on the Circle

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Painter Lady

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The sun rises to the east and lights up the garden.

The Sunflowers by Ethelwyn Wetherald

When lamps are out and voices fled,
And moonlight floods the earth like rain,
I steal outside and cross the lane
And stand beside the sunflower bed;
Each blind, unopened face is turned

To where the western glories burned,
As though the sun might come again,
With some last word he left unsaid.When Dawn with slender shining hand
Inscribes a message on the wall,

I follow at the silent call
To where my tall sun-lovers stand.
Their wistful heads are lifted high
Toward the flaming eastern sky,
As though some voice had turned them all,

Some secret voice of strong command.Ah, should I from the windowed height
Keep vigil in the room above,
And see them lightly, surely move
Through the chill stretches of the night,

Would not the heart within me burn,
As loyally I watched them turn,
With sweet undoubting faith and love
From vanished light to dawning light?

I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Elmore Leonard

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