Pleasant View Schoolhouse

 I bought this little cyclamen plant at Kroger to paint and find myself going back to it again and again. This is the first painting of four...

Snow is an EVENT down here and when it comes every few years it brings shock and awe. The Composer went out to the bottom of the pasture to ...

 In the run-up to Christmas I'm finding myself uninspired when it comes time to cook dinner. A: there's just so much else to do and ...

  That's what this day is for.

  I've always found limits to be creatively helpful--I just think it's easier, when setting out on a creative project, to have fewer...

  This is yesterday's studio session--my second painting from the same flowers. I did my best to keep things simple and only show the la...

Five years ago without planning to, I drifted away from this blog, as our family moved into a season of almost constant change, almost all o...

It's probably a very First World + Rural Area problem to have, but my quilt shelves have been overflowing for quite some time. I...

The library's sale shelves. I've gotten some great stuff for very little, and I enjoy supporting the library. I try to stop and...

Tonight was one of the times when I sat down and whipped out a painting. It helps to start with a black ground--that's currently my...

Irises with lots of movement and lots of paint.

The girls and I went camping at a Dark Sky state park and *finally* learned the constellations once and for all (I hope). Many daff...

Since I took this picture this afghan has grown much much bigger and actually far darker, since I've leaned much more towards navie...

The Composer brought home roses for Valentine's Day and they went to the painting studio with me. I finished them today. Love how i...

I missed my Tuesday night painting session but hopped over after lunch today, to find that someone had left a bouquet of sunflowers set...

All is well here--I've been without photo capability for the last month as my photo processor (the Composer) has been working every...

Fresh paint on the windowsills. Constant brewing of PG Tips in the biggest pot. Endless dishes to wash. Christmas ...

These are just a few phone photos--we haven't seen the real ones yet. We cleared out the living room and set up white chairs. ...

Just checking in with a preview peek of the bride and groom dashing out through a shower of rice. The wedding was gorgeous, Christmas w...

I bought a few yards of bleached muslin, washed and dried it, and used pinking shears to cut it into 18" squares. We starched and ...

Why was winter never my favorite season? The light is so beautiful--the long shadows, the low sun, the golden woods.

I had a great day of cooking and baking Saturday, with a cake count of six, and cake production pausing only for a qu...

This painting has taken me a most uncharacteristically long time. The problem is that I slapped some big flowers down on a canvas with ...

I am loving this book,  The Power of Habit . It's making me rethink all of my routines and rituals, wondering how I can harness them...

Whew. This is just a busy, busy season. Travel, wedding, giant party, whole-house renovation, work. My idea is that all of it will be ...

A few weeks ago a tiny, teenincey (as we say in the South) kitten showed up on the back porch. He was almost too small to eat crunchy ca...

I found a cashmere coat at the thrift store in the perfect color, if you were wanting to make a bear for a baby, which I was. In...

Miss Manners hard at work getting out the holiday edition of her column, addressing all her readers' questions about how much they c...

Clara polished the silver. Bella picked up the forgotten groceries. I made the cranberry sauce and cornbread for the dressing.  ...

Sunday afternoon was perfect for a hike. Daisy didn't want to drive anywhere though, so we did what we should do more often--we wal...