Creatively Thinking

  Featured image: Cedar Roots Along the Shore trees along the river the soil is so thin marveling at the trees many massive gold on along the bank grounded in soil so thin

  Featured image: Life is Like a Box of Chocolates We never sit     anything out.  We are cups,      quietly       and       constantly  being filled. the trick is  knowing       how to  tip ourselves  over and let the  beautiful stuff out.

Featured image: Spider Web I always love it when a creature crosses my path and represents in the spiritual world who I think I am. Yesterday a Wolf Spider crossed my path. I noticed it in particular, because she had a beautiful large, white sack and bands across her legs and was extremely furry. So I looked her up online. I was curious about this beautiful spider who had crossed my path and its symbolism and spiritualism. According to online resources, Native American cultures, Indian Native American cultures associate wolf spiders with protection and nurturing, and their webs symbolize creativity and extreme feminine energy. It is patient, resourceful and adapts to different situations easily. The wolf spider uses its instincts and intuition to overcome challenges.  I love it when I look up a creature that's crossed my path and it's exactly who I think I am - well, at least I think I am anyway. I don't know what other things to think. Have a good day!

  Featured image: Flowers Just for You I am in love I am in love with the mild light of springtime, the sheer shivering joy of springtime and its delightful gentle intricacies.

  Featured image: Red Truck When I walk into a thrift store or antique shop or go to a garage sale, I feel so many things bouncing off me, mainly the histories of the objects that are for sale.  If I don’t get that feeling of spirit and history, and the aura of the objects,  I turn around and don’t go any further. I think of walking into a church the same way. It doesn’t matter what denomination the church is, if I don’t feel the spirit of the church I want to walk away and not go in.   This phenomenon and this feeling is different yet the same in both places. I either feel this life and spirit of what is there and stay or don’t stay. When I go shopping for antiques, I like to think they are lovingly used. I need to feel this marvel of its history, to engage with it. I love being able to touch the toys that children used to play with, like this antique truck. When I caress the object, I don’t want to let it go because of this spirit and its history, its life. Th...

  Featured image: Dove II The Wings of a Dove- Finding her way She finds her way a doves wings – the wind -  wind beneath her wings – she finds her way. She learned to fly With the wind beneath her wings singing to her

This is an orchid - isn't it glorious, so beautiful.  And the amaryllis in the background-what's up with it? I have 6 of them blooming and it's not Christmas.  I know what's up. It's a blessing.

  Featured image: What Lies Beneath Artist's Reality artist's reality, to make the ordinary e.x.p.a.n.s.i.v.e u.n.l.i.m.i.t.e.d inspired

  Featured image: Your Mind Sings - Listen Find a place, some kind of environment that allows you to                      BE Find your recklessness.

  Featured image: Gifts from God Don't box yourself in. If you choose to box yourself in then be a pretty present then, share yourself with others.

  Featured image: Balance You have the potential to enlighten, illuminate and transform people and places. When you have inner balance and peace within yourself you have the same inner balance and peace within your spirit and soul that you can share with others.

  Featured image: All Rise We never sit anything out. We are cups quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Ray Bradbury

Glorious Mother's Day at Black River Harbor - I have several stories of chats with folks along the shoreline walk - but first thought I would share this with you all - the apple blossoms and cherry blossoms were glorious along the shore and on the trip up.   And then I saw a carpet of stars - magical carpet of stars. and two beautiful forsythia bushes oh my gosh - oh my gosh this is now my desktop slide.  I am switching between the white blossoms and the yellow blossoms - can't decide.

  Featured image: The Mask I am incredibly honored that my piece, "The Mask," has been awarded an Honorable Mention at the esteemed Philadelphia Watercolor Society 2024 Member Exhibition. This recognition means so much to me as an artist and serves as a testament to the passion and dedication I pour into my work. Thank you to the Philadelphia Watercolor Society for this incredible honor.  

  Featured image: Caves Along the Shore - Lake Superior kayaking arms stretching finally I am free horizon and water meet still kayaking Lake  superior

  Featured image: Back Yard Birds Gosh where to begin?  I played around with this whole piece and everything in it. I think every part of an abstract or semi-abstract work is always experimental, as I rarely have much in mind when I start working. When I began this work last November, I started with a figure, washes, and colors.  I then stepped back and asked myself what the idea behind this work would be. I decided to make birds part of the composition, but how and where to place them became a major struggle.  I tried many ways, sizes, colors and shapes but always painted over them.  If you look closely at the work, you might glimpse the birds I painted over because they just weren’t right. It wasn’t until I put the red bird on the shoulder of the figure that I stopped struggling and felt comfortable with the marks and colors of the bird.  The rest didn’t come easily after that. I tried many birds flying around but that didn’t work for me. I finally settle...

  Featured image: Little Hummer Yea! First Hummer at the feeder today!

  Featured image: Yellow Finch III The finch's yellow  song  touches the  stillness. Masked by a grey sky    metamorphosis  of the sun happens.

  Featured image: A Cloud in the Sky Just a minute ago I looked up Toward the sky, puffy clouds Slowly meandering across the  Gray blue and white sky. I wonder I listen. Eyes closed, I travel Happily to a different place With blue white sky and  Puffy clouds. When I open My eyes, puffy clouds have Moved on to be shared with Another, Minutes spend  Enjoying the clouds.

  Featured image: Wonderful Flying Machine Is it too late to change? Am I working towards that dream I thought I was called to do? But what I am doing is not what I imagined or dreamed. I am wondering, is it too late to change direction?  It is hard, change is, I know.  But I do change – and I make myself vulnerable by putting my new work out there. I have the attitude that change is good, but hard, but imagination is fun and exciting. All the large competition pieces I have been working on this winter are different from other works I have done.  Change is scary. As I work, I think to myself is it worth even entering a competition with this one?  When artists change, they have no one to go to, to talk to about the new pieces. For me, if it gets into a competition, I say to myself well I guess it wasn’t that bad. The thing about being an artist is it's about being intuitive, and listening to what the creative activity wants me to do. It is really what makes a wor...

  Featured image: Goose Darn it, darn it! Those geese are back on my little island.  Well, it isn’t mine, but I like to think of it is mine, as many of my neighbors on this side of the lake also think it is their little island, or some call it Powder Puff.  The geese came last year – and now they are back.  This used to be a loon’s nest and I saw them earlier, but they must have gone somewhere else.  Anyway, the geese are there building a nest, making the little island full of slippery poop. The mom sits on the nest and once in a while the dad helps and sits.  Then, about a month later, we watch as the goslings are in the water swimming behind their parents. Cute? Yes, but darn it - they are on my little island.