10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
Spring Will Come
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” -Robert H. Schuller
En garde, Spring!
24″x48″ mixed media on canvas
Rain in the forecast? We are ready.
Walking to School Series No•14
When a House Becomes a Home
8″x10″ oil on panel
This is a closing gift commissioned by a realtor. What a sweet way to say hello or goodbye to a place you call home.
Grown in the Wild
12″x9″ pastel on sanded paper
“Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” -Lorde
Blooming Bulb
5″x7″ pastel on sanded paper
“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” –Hans Christian Andersen
Bluebonnet – up close and personal
8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper
Howdy Blue
14″x11″ pastel on sanded paper
“It’s not only the state flower but also a kind of floral trademark almost as well known to outsiders as cowboy boots and the Stetson hat. The bluebonnet is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland, the cherry blossom to Japan, the lily to France, the rose to England and the tulip to Holland.” Wrote historian Jack Maguire
The season is short, I plan to make the most of it.
Spring
5″ square pastel on sanded paper
Spring: a lovely reminder of how truly beautiful change can be.
Legacy, Contained in a Bulb
5″x7″ pastel on sanded paper
If you would like to know the history of any Texas woman, ask her about her bulbs. You will learn about her family, her neighbors, her church friends, and possibly about some of her adventures and travels.
“These Irises are from my Great Aunt Thelma, these Bare Naked Ladies are from my mom’s next door neighbor when she lived in Oak Cliff, the Amaryllises are from the organist from the church where I was married, my husband and I dug up these Lilies as newly weds from an abandoned house we found driving the back roads in East Texas…”
Season after season the flowers bless our springs, and from time to time we dig, divide and our own stories get planted into the next generation of Texas gardens.
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