The Day of Kissing Plastic Pig Eggs

As requested: pics. of a little boy on Easter day. We bought Bits some farm easter eggs to find in the yard after we came home from Sunday service.

He had lots of fun which made it fun for all of us.

All I Need is a Tree Against a Cloud Infused Blue Sky to Make me Happy

I'm making up for my recent lack of posts and photos. Holidays take up a lot of my time, as well as figuring out the dynamics of trying to purchase a home.

Here are trees and clouds, some of the simplest God-given beauty out there.

It is More than Chilly Today

Blue skies were given to us this past weekend. I remembered them fondly as I timidly peered outside today and saw the blank gray above and a few flurries floating in the air. Yesterday's chilly evening has continued on and brought a few cold flakes for us today. I really loved taking pics. of the fresh snow and stark contrast of white against treesthis past winter, but I am eager for the warm temps. that we've been fortunate enough to have, to continue.

I organized my t-shirt and tank top dresser drawer yesterday. Everything is a go if only the sun and warmth would hurry up and come back for a visit.

I have No Photos, So It's Nothing but Blah, Blah, Blah

Oh my goodness, boy am I feeling drained. Lots and lots to do, no time for the snapping of pics. It's pretty sad when my energies are so zapped, I can't even relax to take a pic. or two.

We took the first official full walk around the lake of the season, and it was cold. Spring cold is technically different than fall cold, but cold none the less and we were under dressed. Not a good thing to be halfway around the lake and not on the way back home yet. The board walk is open and the brush has been cut down to allow vast open views of the lake, and also unhindered sweeping wind. There's something to be said of the hidden shelter of brush and trees as you walk along the winding path.

Any who, I just remembered I have some pics. to share from a couple days ago, but you have to wait 'til tomorrow, no patience for slow uploads tonight. Until then, dream of images of red streaked indigo clouds clumped above hills of trees.
We stopped our quick paced walk to enjoy their passing beauty.

Lead Testing Tabs on sale for 8.99

My thoughts are spinning round and round and I have too much to do to keep them organized. I would like to promise pics. at some point this weekend of a few more fun pieces I recently finished, but when that post will happen for sure is yet to be determined. Bits and I have been enjoying the weather and getting back to our walks and park time (and ice cream at Northwoods too). If my mind wasn't so mushy and my eyes so bleary while trying to focus my last energies on this blog, I might have some cute, funny, or refreshing story to share, but all I can tell you is this: 1x2 pine boards are .15 cents a foot at Forslunds (oh, and the computer inventory number is 194).

Trying to Fly without Feathers

Here's a painting I just finished on the fly. Painted the background in a dark teal color one afternoon and painted the figure in another afternoon. Yay to the return of Bit's nap time.

I created the piece for two reasons:

1) Any reason to take a break from painting lighthouses is a good reason, and

2) It will be (hopefully) included in a traveling show in the area put on by a local agency. April is Sexual Assault awareness month, with teal being the thematic color.

The figure is holding a "primary flight feather". Read into it what you may.

*(and no this is not a portrait of me, but try as I might, I always accentuate details of face, similar to my own)

If the Sky were a Paint Swatch, it'd be called U.P. Spring Blue

Originally this blog piece was going to be about temperatures warming up and the frozen lake reappearing in it's free moving form, but upon driving out to thrift stores, taking in the views of the sky, and letting my thoughts come and go, I realized there is no other area I'd like to be, for me, my son, my family.

The night before, Bits looked out the window and saw two deer walking through the front yard.

During the day, when he wasn't running, running, and running, he walked, face turned downward, searching for acorns (Mommy prefers to find pinecones, of course).

Yesterday, on our drive along US 2, a coyote (I think it may have been a wolf, but don't want to make such a strong claim) came walking across our driven path.

I was driving a little askew as my eyes and camera took in the pure sky. The shade of blue in the sky was so appropriate for the brisk spring U.P. day. I found fabric at the thrift store close to the exact color in the sky, it must have been saved for me to find.

It was one of those days, where I wasn't quite dressed for the temps., but the day itself made me think about all that this quiet area of the U.P. really has to offer.