poetryandart

Just trying to learn more about painting roses.  They are definately a challenge for me.  This one is oil on canvas.  But I want to try doing some in acrylic.  I have no experience using acrylic, but I am ready to try it.  Not sure what medium to use is best, wether canvas or paper or what.  Ive been watching you tube videos on my phone of someone that paints amazing antique roses and trying hard to learn the techniques. If I was a gardener I would have a front yard full of roses.  I just love them all colors, all shapes and sizes.  They are such a beautiful flower.  Someone said the Earth laughs in Flowers.  I believe it !

Its Autumn or "Fall" as it is often referred to.  The leaves are falling and the "helicopters" (my sister calls them) from off of the trees and making for a very asthetic look to the the landscape.  It's a photographer's or artist's delight to have all this beautiful orange- rusty- brown colors and bright yellows and reds to look at.   The drop in temperature has been a little difficult though as it was 100 degrees plus just a few days ago and now i ts down to 60s and 40s and night.  I got chilled taking a nap on the couch a few days ago and started to feel a little under the weather.  But all is normalized now and I am back to my old self.  I am now recovering from a root canal procedure and taking anti biotics for five days just to be on the safe side.  I hear there are fires in Colorado right now.  I hope everyone is safe and that they put them out soon. So did everyone watch the town halls the other night?  I watched the Biden one, well h...

LAST DAY OF SECOND PASSOVER I dont keep track of the Jewish calendar -- so I have to go as I have read that this the last day of second passover on the 2019 calendar. June 2, 2019 is the date. And it is a sabbath also.  This is a very significant feast given in the scriptures.  It is for those that have gone on a long journey or for the unclean to be able to celebrate passover when the first passover has past. Its been very hot here in Eastern Washington where I live.  I have to put the sprinklers out in the morning for at least a half an hour and sometimes at night to try to keep the lawn green.  Finally got the backyard grass cut and weed eated the weeds -- trying to find a lawn guy around here is like looking for gold.   Went to a yard sale the other day and found a necklace (antique I think) of beautiful rhinestones set in silver by Weiss.  I think I will keep it in my jewelry collection.  Dont think it is worth anything anyway.   ...

Happy Easter Everybody! I am having my nephew for the weekend... so that is nice!   We will probably go to the park and feed the ducks and take candy for a walk with us.  We might go out to the restaurant for breakfast or pie and coffee.  We will see.  I am pretty sure we will go to a church service - but remains to see which one we go to, as he wants to go to one, and I want to go to another.   Its beautiful out right now -- sunny, slight breeze, and fresh.  I am hoping for a shower later though to water the grass and flowers (and wash my car) haha. We are having a full pink moon this weekend.  I sat outside last night after dark because it was quite comfortably warm here last night and watched the pink moon come up over the horizon and gently lift up towards the middle of the sky when I decided it was time to go to bed.  It was really lovely to see.  Glad there were no clouds in the way or rain as one person said that stopp...

WE ARE HAVING A SNOW STORM! It is definitely a lot of snow right now on February 20,2019.  Actually it is clearing out some, but for all intents and purposes it is snowing right now as I speak.  Of course it is suppose to be just a sprinkling compared to the 12 to 18 inches we have already that has accumulated on the ground and made for quite a mess here in south western Washington State. I was not even able to walk down my driveway or front yard for several days last week.  I would have slipped and fallen for sure.  So a couple of my neighbors offered to go to the store for me - which was a life saver indeed.  Then my neighbor cleared my driveway out so that I could at least get out when I was finally able to. The storm is travelling across the country now and it is going to end up in the New England states.  I hope they don't have as much snow as we did.  Our temperatures are hovering in the high 20s and sometimes our high for the day is freezi...

This is one of my favorite paintings -- Royal Gardens .  this is oil on canvas.  I enjoyed painting it.   You can buy a print at Pixels. Com -- https://pixels.com/featured/royal-gardens-cheryl-godden.html We still have smoke here in south western Washington State !!  Its not fun to deal with -- It makes my eyes tear up and makes me sneeze a lot.  I have to constantly clean my air conditioner filter.  But enough complaining at least it is not in the 100s degrees anymore it has reduced to 80s, and for that I am grateful. As I type this President Trump is talking at at a rally in Montana -- hopefully their Big Sky is clear and not full of smoke.  He is quite a speaker !!  I enjoy listening to him, he is not like a boring regular politician that will put you to sleep listening. My neighbor grows apples and grapes and roses and all manner of things in his garden.  I stopped to talk to him today when I was taking Candy ...

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