Taking a Break...Summer Vacation

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I will post again in September. Hope everyone has a good summer.

That tree I keep drawing & more rainbows with sunshine

Love Hurts God heals, part 3

I revisited this old post today because I needed to. I have about three situations of varying degrees of stress cooking on my stove. When you note that my cook top has only 4 burners, that makes for a full, hot and messy kitchen. I am trying to stir each situation with love and faith and keep the contents from scorching the bottom or boiling over. I'm trying to add the right ingredients, at the right time and in the right order, and not sour the situations with the wrong ingredients. I think another pot is being added... Oh my!

Vanessa & Hodgepodge

MMMmm...good. This was breakfast today: Grits with sharp cheddar, garlic, onion and fresh Italian parsley.
~I woke up during the middle of the night. To help me drift back to sleep, I turned the TV to a rerun of The Cosby Show. I was just floating back into dreamland when my mind decided to think of, and name the Cosby kids. I could not recall the name of one of them. I tried Big Daddy's A-B-C trick, but that didn't help. Then I tried to forget about it and just sleep. By then I was back to being more awake then asleep and could not even think about sleep again until I finally Googled to find the name my brain misplaced of one of Cliff and Claire's five children. Can you name them all without cheating? After that I slept. It's not right. I'm not right.~Did you ever wonder how Netflix gets your movies to you so quickly? Here is a nifty article that explains.
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Fascinating story HERE on Ethiopian Church Forests.

Small Botanical Drawings

India ink and Prismacolour pencils, spring botanical drawing.



Leafy botanical drawing, India ink and Prismacolour pencils.

Some landscape paint sketches & a doodle

Tempera paint:




India ink & coloured pencil:

Some Paint Sketches

This was a picture I took of my garden's bounty many years ago. I know I posted the pic before. I was inspired by it and ended up doing a couple of simple paint sketches.



Marigolds & tomatoes. Plain old tempera on paper.