Bird in a clay pot

Bird on Clay Pot

11x14 oil on canvas

Startled

" Startled" Oil on Canvas 

Sensing the Storm

Little bird

Harkers Island NC Light House Horses

This is my husbands favorite place in the world to fish. He works hard from sun up to sundown  7 days a week. He is lucky to get that rare day when the wind is not blowing and the waves are not too rough and everything lines up just right at work. In the past 35 years I generally would not go with him because he leaves at 4 in the morning and also the waves can whip up choppy quickly and make for a scarey ride.This particular day I decided to brave it and was so glad I did. The ocean was like glass and the horses were out getting a early morning breakfast.

Evening Visitor 2

This is a tiny 8 x 10 painting. It is of one of the cows I discovered on a snowy farm in Virginia. Yes, that was one beautiful yellow sunset. It looked just like I painted it, and that is why I felt compelled to jump out of my car and trudge through the cold snowy air and watch the sun set on this cow.

Evening Visitor

It had just snowed earlier  on this almost spring  day and the sun was setting across this farm in Virginia. The cows were actually "lowing" which seems to be a long quiet slow drawn out sound which was not like the normal moo. They seemed  a bit concerned about me visiting them so late in the evening. Although it was February, the sound they made reminded me of  a song we sing in December.

  The cattle are lowing the poor baby wakes, but little Lord Jesus no crying he makes. I love thee Lord Jesus look down from the sky and stay by my cradle til morning is nigh."Away in Manger" ..

Vandalism in the Pottery Shed

He was Baaaaaad.. really really BAAAAD! 

Road Block Moove Over

A Friend of mine captured a Photo of these cows when she was on her honeymoon in Ireland, and I just had to paint them.

Meager Breakfast

11x14 Acrylic on Canvas

A Morning Ride With Gus, Tuffy, and Smokey

A Morning Ride With Gus, Tuff & Smokey.

One Autumn morning I took my camera and went out

 to take photos of  these barns and old house with colorful

 weeds that hugged the porch.

To my delight a family rode up on Gus, Tuff and Smokey

and tied them up to go into the country grocery which was

across the road from the old house. These are well loved horses

and from what I understand they have lots of cute "horse clothes"

you know, blankets and such that they wear. 

First Snow on the Autumn Leaves

First in a Series of Barns and Places along the Wayside

There are old barns, gas stations, beat up trucks, and tractors dotted along the road sides of the paths we take in life. They testify of  the hopes and plans others have had many years ago. As we pass by these places each day  we begin to feel comfortable with them, we know them like the back of our hand yet we never stop and really look at them. Seasons change, time passes as the new moves in and the old goes the way of things of age, these things begin to slowly get rusty or gray, shrivel up, lean, groan and then one day we pass by and notice too late, that it's gone. We miss it and we never really knew we were going to.

 I wanted to stop and paint a few of them. Not for you, or my kids, but for myself. To say hello to them for the first time maybe, and or even possibly good-bye, because even if they are not going away anytime soon, I for one am just passing though.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. James 4:14

Waiting For The Dawn- Summer and Winter