For Mother’s Day, I brought my mom a beautiful hanging basket bursting with these luminous pink petunias. I’m so lucky to still have both of my parents and that they’re both as well as they are. That is the true gift; these flowers are just a token of my gratitude,
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And this is a northern redneck! The Redneck Grebe is native to Canada and Alaska, nesting in the spring near small ponds and sloughs. I’d never seen one before, but this guy was hanging out, brilliant in his mating plumage, at the Kerrywood Nature Centre in Red Deer last week. An excellent swimmer and diver, you can see how far back his legs are positioned…like a merganser or a loon. I’ll be watching for more of these guys.
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Soon now…within the next month anyway, the aspens in the Cypress Hills will unfurl their exquisite coin-shaped leaves and set about the business of quaking in the breezes. Nature is so incredible…every species of plant and animal has it’s distinctive characteristics, yet each individual is one-of-a-kind. This clump of aspen is just one
example of that small truth.
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Wow, the Meadowlarks were singing their heads off this morning, and I’m hoping they’re calling in the rain. My brother, a rancher, calls them the “Rainmakers”, believing that they have the ability to do just that. Here’s hoping! SOLD
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As for “Where’s Ravenscraig?”, that’s a story for another day.
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Here’s the barn I grew up with again, as it was last week. One of the first daily paintings I did was of this lovely old barn in winter. This is daily painting #134 today, and as of yesterday, more than 10,000 people have looked at my blog, and nearly that many have seen the “dailies” on facebook. I want to thank you all so very much; thanks for taking time to drop in and for your kind comments and feed-back. For those of you who have bought one of these little paintings, a special thanks to you for helping me to continue doing my creative “work”. SOLD
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This was the sky, yesterday when I went to visit Polly, my lovely old mare. The river valley is starting to green up & the cottonwoods are sending out leaves, optimistic that it won’t freeze again. It’s windy as you can tell by these clouds, but we’re all so glad it’s not snowing……dare we hope that spring really is here?
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Here’s an annual treat I give myself. I used to try and grow tulips, but the deer think I grow them just for them. They wait till the tulips are ready to open, and I’ll go out and find nicely grouped tulip leaves and stalks!! they don’t even leave me one! So I buy myself a bunch or 2 every spring, at the grocery store, and arrange them in my Salt Spring Island pottery vase….(another of my treats to myself).
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Some of us got home for a few days at Easter, to spend time with our family, and to check in on calving, the number of meadowlarks and all things “spring”! My sister Kath brought the most stunning blue hydrangea to our Mom. I felt daunted by the colour alone. It’s not blue, not purple, and has centres of the tenderest of greens, with iridescent hints of rose and purple. It kicked my butt, but here’s the result nevertheless!
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While on a painting holiday in France a couple of years ago, we came upon this magnificent swan, trolling languidly in the Dordogne River. He’s a “Mute Swan” (Cygnus Olor), and while indigenous to Europe, has been successfully emigrated to North America as well. I painted him today, and then discovered that our own swans are migrating through, stopping over on a big slough on the ranch I grew up on. Welcome home!
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