“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”- Rumi
My life if full of beauty, it is everywhere. I am constantly discovering it in the ordinary, what some might even call mundane. If you are having a hard time finding the beauty in your neighborhood, grab a child by the hand and go for a walk 1.5 in any direction – they will discover beauty in places you never thought to peek.
Walking to School series No•2
18″x24″ pastel in sanded paper
Fall in Texas 6/100. Thursday morning-sprinklers, skipping, and splashing. It was a lovely, if slightly damp, walk to school.
24″x18″ pastel on sanded board
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” -Henry David Thoreau
Fall in Texas 5/100
7″x5″ oil on panel
“The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.” -Phil Mickelson
Fall in Texas 4/100
7″x5″ oil on panel, Plein air. Fall in Texas 3/100.
I love that Sycamore Tree!
I could used to this “art cart”!
36″x24″ oil on canvas
Fall in Texas 2/100
Two of my goals this years are to paint the seasons where I am, and to paint bigger.
7″x5″ oil on panel
Fall in Texas 1/100
10″x8″ oil on panel
White Sands,NM en Plein Air
“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” – Sharon Draper
“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
This is just an old adobe gate that intruigues me. It is on the road to El Rito. I don’t know who lives beyond this gate, but I know when I pass it I am almost there…to a dear friend, who has dinner waiting on the her rooftop patio. “Dinner is waiting” is such a good feeling. This scene is a great reminder.
10″x8″ oil on panel
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” -Earl Nightingale
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