Sept. 5, 2011

The Little Old Widder Woman

has been on a bit of a break

from her blog.

She's been:

watching art videos,

catching up on painting techniques,

preparing art entries for the Lake County Fair,

Sept.1-5, 2011,

setting up her easel and brushes, paints and

seeking inspiration for next

painting

working on the family in

"Family Treasures"

and staging live geramiums and studying them

so they will look real when she

attempts to paint the geraniums

in "Family Treasures."

I don't know why I'm talking about myself in

the Third Person .... just thought it was kind of cool.

There's no

improvement in the

handiwork and artistry

of God!

Phew! He was good!

This is the most challenging

painting I've ever done ....

am doing.

In an earlier blog I told how it had been damaged

and then repaired by Master Art Conservatores,

Kristin Anderson and Don Pierce,

Junction City, Oregon.

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It's also Fall season.

I hate to admit it but it's here.

Leaves are starting to fall ..... of course,

it might just be my cherry tree

that has half of the lower bark

chewed and gnawed, pecked and peeled

by woodpeckers.

My flower gardens are in need of

cutting, trimming and pulling out to

prepare the beds for next Spring.

So I called my

"Gardeners Extaordinairre"

Little Man

and Teaser!

"WHAT? I was right in the middle of

a tasty Bachelor Button bush!"

He gets a bit testy when he's disturbed

while eating lunch.

They'll tear out the clover and crabgrass that's taking over the flowerbed,

munch on creeping and prickly weeds,

and all the while leaving

not so dainty little piles of

fertilizer for next years flowers.

What about the flowers they step on

or crunch into the ground?

No problem. They'll come back up out of the ground

next season

no worse for wear.

mmmmmmm....

it's good to be back on my blog!