"Fresh Veggies"

" Boot Ranch Beauty"

"Dragons and Blooms"

Watercolor, Alcohol, salt (Margeritas anyone) and a credit card is all it takes sometimes. The only thing was I got a little precious on the dragonfly.

"Along the Pathway"

"Serenity"

These swans were floating on the river in Homasassa. There was such a serenity watching them floating along. doing what swans do. These swans were actually black swans but I had read somewhere that black swans are considered bad luck, I didn't want to send bad luck to someone so I painted them as white swans. If black swans are bad luck, white swans must be Good Luck right. How's your luck?

"Carbohydrate Conundrum"

A chapter in the Women who Run With the Wolves Book deals with "Identifying Leg Traps, Cages and Poisoned Bait". The chapter helped me to Look at some things in my life. The question asked is What do your Red Shoes look like?
Having a slight shoe fetish at the time (75 pairs) I thought about being literal about what do my red shoes look like? But in delving deeper I saw the deeper meaning of the addictive nature of the Red Shoes. After all 75 shoes is a mild addiction next to some people I've heard of. (O.K. maybe I'm in denial... but they won't kill you although sometimes you feel like the pain will kill you.)
My red shoes are: eating things that are not good for me. Carbohydrates are my poisoned bait. I love them, I crave them. And yet they are hurting my body (I'm breaking out in fat all over) it's always my first choice and my choices are taking my body down the drain I am being sucked into the vortex of the carbohydrate conundrum.

"Bird of Paradise"

"Strolling Green Key"

"Coconut Rest Stop"

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"Rainbows are Promises"

Chapter 9 in the book "Women Who Run With the Wolves" is titled Homing: Returning to Oneself

My response to that chapter was:

When I was young and beautiful I shed my clothes and posed nude. I took pictures of myself when I was a photography student (cheap model). I had this shot and it reminded me of Botticelli's "birth of Venus" pose. I've wanted to paint it for 20 some years but I could'nt until this book. I was afraid of what everyone would think so I hid the pictures. Now I see that they are just form, beautiful form and I want to share it. I am one with the universal light and all the colors of the rainbow fill my form and my skin to let you see the form not the parts of it.

"Espirito Santo Bay"

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"Tall Drink of Water"

"Red Hot"

I painted the light background painting first and thought it was done then after some time and another opinion I decided to paint the background dark and I really like the painting much better. I felt the background was competing with the horse. I think the horse is very "Red Hot" now.

"Solitary Swan"

"Gram's Pansy"

"Heart of Hydranga"

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The Lacey Cap Hydrangea is a very beautiful Specimen of the Hydrangea flower.

It resembles the head of a woman crowned with a floral wreath and reminds me of May Day ceremonies in the spring as a child with wreaths of flowers and flowing ribbons and smiles and laughter weaving the ribbons around the pole.

When I was observing the plant and deciding my painting concept of the flowers I noticed that each petal of the flower looks like a heart and even the leaves look like huge green hearts and that was my inspiration for the heartfelt painting and the heart shaped vignette.

This is my Valentine in Blue.

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"Fruits of Our Labor"

"Momentary Distraction"

"Little Jewel"

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"Ancient Mariner"