Koi Pond

 

Pic of the Day

 

the Seek app

See a bug or plant out in your yard and you don’t know what it is? Just open the Seek app on your phone and hold before the subject. Seek and you will find out. ❤️ This is from today.

Art and Flowers

 Occasionally I am called back into art service. A friend asked me to find art for her garden club to use in a show, one that included making flower arrangements that are inspired by art, all paintings in this case. This idea, or theme, is carried out in museums, etc and is quite popular. Here is one painting with its arrangement. 

I felt inspired to paint something I thought would be a good “inspiration piece,” one that a flower arranger would like to do, that was used in the spring category. Then I offered it for a raffle. Someone gladly took it off my hands. 

Finally May!

And time to post daily. Blogger is not what it used to be and neither am I, but here we go. 

Posting daily is a good discipline for me during this sunny and merry month. Yesterday I met with friends to do collages. It was messy. I was challenged. But here is what I came up with. I rather like it. 

politics

For at least ten years, I have attended open to the public Republican led meetings to learn what's going on in my town, state and country. It is good to get unfiltered "news", straight for the horses mouth. This evening the main speaker was the state treasurer, and I learned a lot. Citizens of any country should be taught the basics of what's going on in their government, from local boards to the president of the country and his team. Do schoolchildren study government and civics anymore?

Sunrise

 My neighbor and I decided to go to a sunrise service at WB on Easter. Anticipating parking challenges, we left early. Good thing. We got there in plenty of time to see the literal crack of dawn turn into a ball of yellow rising to light the new day. Here is me, iPhone camera in hand. An all around wonderful experience.