Hi again folks,Well, here it is a couple days later, and I'm blogging again. It is 7:15, and the sun is setting, a very dramatic orange and gray again at the end of a rainy day. The sunset pictured is from last night. I am always amazed at the beauty of the Florida sky all through the day, and then there's the big fireworks a the end of the day. What a wonderful gift to receive every day.
The first picture is of an orchid growing from THIN AIR on our holly tree! All I did was twist-tie it to a branch and then do absolutely nothing to keep it alive, roots exposed and all. Eventually it sends out tendrils to attach to the tree, and then the twist-tie gets removed. I've twist-tied dozens of them to the tree, so soon I will have a bouquet. Imagine, an orchid growing in my tree, and with no help? Amazing, since after living in Connecticut where you had to break you neck digging through the stones just to grow a geranium!
The second picture is a VERY pregnant stick bug (so I've been told) that perched herself on my studio sliders. I taped a penny nearby so that you could see how big it is. It is a very ugly bug that didn't flinch when I taped the penny up. She stayed there all day, then disappeared at night (probably to lay her eggs).
The third pic is my "Patio Project," which I'm almost done with. Just need to level a dozen or so more stone and it will be finished! Please excuse all the messy "Tools-of-the-trade" on the porch. Can't wait to frame the patio with floral hedges and furnish it with plants in clay pots, and recover the patio chairs with something a little livlier, then Bob and I can sit down on our new patio and give a toast to the sunset.
I hope to post a painting tomorrow, one which I started today at the Sebastian River Art Club's Tuesdays get-together. I took my neighbor Julianne with me to show her how to paint with oils, and to see if she would like to join the club. It's a good club with good, friendly people who love art.
Tomorrow I go plein air painting with the Treasure Coast group in the morning and I may end up posting that on the blog, if I can fit it in before going t the website meeting for the Vero Beach Art Club at night. My work and others can be found on www.verobeachartclub.org.
Well, thanks for looking in at my blog, and like I said I don't know where this is going to go, but I would like to get used to use it so that eventually I can use it for an art project I am working towards.
Judy
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