Bloomin' Spring!

What a wonderful, beautiful, gorgeous spring day! It’s just about as perfect as you can get. Couldn't wait to get outside and do some spring cleaning in the garden. We have so many flowers blooming now it looks like a big ole florist shop! We have daffodils, tulips, muscari, mock orange, freesias, lilacs, peonies and more right outside our door. It’s a bloomin’ wonderland.

!I love spring!!I love spring!

Teton Pony

At the Soroptimists' annual Crab Feed in St. Helena in 2008, we were the lucky winners of an auction item...a house in Ennis, Montana for one week for 4 couples. As it turned out, only 4 of us could make the trip: Beth & Jon and Loyal and myself. The entire adventure was spectacular! We had never been to that part of the world and found it to be extraordinary in every way. On the way home, we loved seeing Yellowstone National Park (yes, the scars from the fires are still visible) and Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. I was happy to have my digital camera along and must have taken 900+ photos along the way. The photo of the pony shown above was taken at the Tetons. Since that time I have attempted to sketch some of the subjects of those photos; and then, being so pleased with myself that the pony sketch turned out as nice as it did, I then scanned it into Photoshop CS3 and created the digital layout.

A Few Friends of Mine

Aw, gee, I know my sketching isn't the greatest... but I just have to keep trying. One has to improve with practice! I took some art classes way back when in Junior College, but never really kept up with the drawing part of it. The lovely ladies above are my first attempts in a long, long time. I decided to make them into "friends" so that I will have some company the next time I delve into that realm again. They will be my muses! LOL!