A Welcoming Entrance

"A Welcoming Entrance" - I've been painting a lot of spring flowers this year - I can't help it, as I really love this time of year.  Flowers add so much to a place, whether it be a home or a field or a roadside ditch, the world is a much better place with them in it.   They just seem to add a great deal of warmth and welcome to any place, but most especially home. 

Along the way home, clumps of daffodils, hyacinths, grape muscari wave their welcome and show off their colors just to delight you.  The trees - not to be outdone - put forth their brightest, greenest foliage of the season, not yet touched by Summer's perils (heat, drought and insects). 

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This is probably my favorite right at present, and is in my own collection.

Lake Hideaway

"Lake Hideaway" -  There's a nice breeze blowing, making the water a bit choppy but it's a beautiful day to be at the lake in this cozy little lakeside cabin!   Daydreaming and painting along - Just completed, March 2012

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Prehistoric Paradise

"Prehistoric Paradise" -   What a place this Earth of ours must have been way back when the dinosaurs walked the land!   Here we have volcanic looking mountains, lush greenery, and a crystal clear,  unspoiled lake.  Just completed,  March 2012  SOLD

Down the Dirt Road

"Down the Dirt Road" - You never know what you'll find when you venture down the backroads.  Sometimes you might just stumble across a scene something like this one. 

Three little homes settled into the hills, surrounded by spring greenery at its finest!  The old dirt road stretches on and on, into the woods and over the hills behind.    A great little neighborhood!  Just completed, March 2012  SOLD

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The Big Yellow Farmhouse

"The Big Yellow Farmhouse" -   Reminds me of a place that I've always admired, that I used to pass by on occassion years ago as a child.   A big yellow farmhouse - always neat as a pin - and looked something like this from my car window vantage point.     Completed January 2012 - SOLD.

A Walk in the Park

"A Walk in the Park" -  Everything is green and in its finest Spring form, with  that special "glow" that you encounter every now and then - usually right before or right after a spring storm - with the sky is a darker, more ominous blue.  My favorite time to go out and about - after the storm has passed, of course! 

Just completed, March 2012.   SOLD

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"The Old Homestead" -  

A beautiful spring day at a small, rustic, prairie homestead-type cabin complete with the old-fashioned well, the rolling hills behind, the sky its bluest blue, and everything lush and green!   

Just completed, March 2012  SOLD