Category Archives: food

Teapot Sill Life

When we were young and working in Calgary, my sister and I lived together. This  teapot was a birthday gift she gave to me at that time.  Now 30 years later it is still my favourite teapot, used for special occasions.  This week, I had company who brought these flowers.  We had tea, and I’d bought groceries, thus the avocado on the cupboard.  All these events coincided in a “found still life” on my kitchen cupboard.
 

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Tomato Season

We had our first really hard frost last night, and considering the date, that’s pretty generous of Mother Nature.  Her other recent gift was the fabulous tomato crop we had this year, the last of the fresh ones going into a batch of cabbage rolls for supper last night. 
Time and the seasons march on, changes are guaranteed to happen. I guess our job is to rise to each occasion.  

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Summer Kitchen

It’s so great to have a garden again, after several years without.  There’s something about being out in my bare feet amongst the vegetables.  This has been a fantastic tomato and pepper year, and this week I started canning both. The result was a “found still life” on my kitchen cupboard.  Anybody for pickled peppers?   

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A Nod to Summer

Big doings in the family this weekend, and I’m enjoying the festivities, so no painting today.  Instead, a photo…A Nod to Summer, because today there’s a change in the wind, and it has the nip of fall. This is one of the photos from pickling day and here’s my wonky little sunflower (the yellow one) from a blog painting a few days ago.  There’s so much difference between a painting and a photograph, and each has it’s charms. 

Happy weekend all!

Any Day Now

The tomatoes are hanging…., heavy and abundant.  I’m so enjoying my garden every single day, and this is the best tomato crop I’ve ever had. Except for this one guy who is almost there, they’re all that translucent golden-green shade they have just before they turn red.    Tonight before supper I was out there beating the underbrush for just one really ripe one for supper.  No luck.  But…..any day now!  

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Flowers & Pickles

 If you grew up in a rural environment and in my generation, then you know what August was all about! We would can and freeze, butcher,  harvest and pickle every garden and farm product we had on the place! Amongst all that we’d be making meals for our sizable family plus the haying crew or the combiners, depending on the year, along with whoever else showed up.  By the end of those summer days (some times around midnight) we’d  swear we never wanted to cook another meal, or wash another dish!
 No wonder I can’t let summer go by without making a few pickles at the very least. I did a dozen jars of dills last evening,(I was finished long before midnight) and this was the still life I “found” on my cupboard this morning.  

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Laura and Robert

A photo today…. spent time at a family branding over the past 2 days, and there’s no wireless internet there.  So I confess to taking a day off from painting!
  After a cold and windy week, we had a great day today.  The work got done, the food and company were fabulous, and as always the photo ops were sublime.  This is  my young friend Laura and her pal Robert, heeling calves.

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Flowers for a Shower

Yesterday we had a wedding shower for a beautiful young woman who is joining our family.  About 50 ladies got together at the hall in Elkwater and the feeling of community reminded me of how is was to grow up in rural Alberta.  It’s comforting to know that vestiges of that sense of rural togetherness and support still remain in some places
Part of my contribution was to bring flowers, and I did this quick painting of one of the bouquets I brought. 

6 X 9″ on 90 lb paper

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XL Chuckwagon

Here’s another relic of the past.  The XL Ranch was across the Bow River from our winter pastures, and this old chuckwagon was still around when I was young.  The Centennial of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Assoc. in 1996 was good for anyone who still knew how to build these utilitarian units since many big ranches had new ones built to take on the big cattle drive across the British Block north of Medicine Hat that year. 

When the west was being settled, these kitchens on wheels rolled with the cattle (and the cowboys who worked with them), and the grumpy old cooks were the most popular guys in camp….famous for their talent with bacon, biscuits and beans.

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The Bad Thing About Gossip

The kitchen cupboard was so much fun yesterday that I decided to set these pears up and paint them.  Their body language has a lesson though.  Whenever you have gossip, someone is left feeling excluded and hurt. 

 5 X 9″ on Khadi Handmade paper

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