New Life

It’s a Girl

We welcomed a granddaughter to the family yesterday. First day of spring indeed.

Happy Spring

As We Enter a New Season - 

First ones just starting to open after our recent snows. 

Last of the Crocuses

I started this post earlier today, when the sun was shining and the day was balmy. It felt like spring. 

Then I got calls and had things to do, and now it is night, AND SNOWING again. Hello, Winter.

Moving Paint Around

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

We Benefited 

While most of the celebrations today are about green beer, corned beef and cabbage, and green leprechauns with gold and rainbows, we really do have a reason to celebrate this day. It was the Irish monks, people like Patrick, who literally saved civilization, who preserved the ancient manuscripts, who were tough enough and motivated enough to take the Gospel to the pagans moving into the vacuum left by the departing Romans. Our Germanic ancestors were brought the Gospel by Irish monks. Our people became Christians through the mission work of strangers in a strange land who cared that others heard the good news they had. It would be well to review that history in our families today, of how God worked our salvation through the hardships others took on to do the Lord’Has work. 

Then enjoy your greens and gold with meaning. 

From this

On a day with no emerald hills.

This is the sun shining through water droplets on the birches, as the snow from last night melts in the sun, after the heavy fog burns off.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

A Piece of a Piece

I am creating a lot these days, but none of it is really shareable, so here is a piece of what I was working on today. :)
 

watercolor and ink pen

 

 

Watercolor 509

Because It Felt Like a Watercolor Day

A snowy, rainy, snowy, grey day outside, so painting helps direct thoughts elsewhere.

Easter Projects 4

Another Bunny

Easter Projects 3

Bunnies

This is one I did some years ago. Decoupage with a napkin. Then augmented with pencils. 

I did another this week. Paint and stenciling. 

Easter Projects 2

Preparing Parts

I found a new medium. It’s called Paper Paste. It is a paste that gets spread in a silicon mold, which, after drying, becomes a flexible form suitable for adhering on flat or round surfaces. 

I plan to use them on eggs. 

Easter Projects

Small Crosses

Painting and stenciling and decoupage.