In Loving Memory~Beagle

Artemis the house is much to quiet without you. May you have moved on to a better place with bottomless food bowls, many critters to chase, and as many bones as you could ever want. You will be greatly missed my friend.

The Awakening

This is a mixed media 5x7 painting available in my ebay store

Interrorem Cabin

While exploring the Olympic National Forest we found the Interrorem Cabin. You can rent this nifty cabin! It was built in 1907 and was the first ranger station in the Olympic National Forest.





An old waterpump on the property


The Duckabush river

Elk!

We took a day trip over to the Olympic Peninsula yesterday and explored around the Duckabush river area. Duckabush means 'place of crooked-jawed salmon'. On the way there near Brinnon we were surprised to see a herd of elk!















We found our first chanterelles of the season




A very dark black slug...


And an unknown mushroom of some sort


We found a bear bone! Maybe...we think...?


And ended the day with a rainbow

Happy Life

This piece is available on Etsy

Threshold of the Ancestors

New piece 3x5 available on Etsy.



The work in progress

The Traveler on a Innukshuk

The Traveler on a Innukshuk

Elephants in nests

Studio33 Art Blitz~Something to Believe In

This fall and early winter Studio33 (an online studio group of artists) are having an art blitz! Look for tons of cool art by studio33 artists on ebay and on etsy by searching studio33 or visiting our studio33 blog for more information and art listings.

To kick off the blitz I listed an auction on ebay starting at only 9.99! Please go bid :)
ebay auction

This piece is an atc/aceo and is 2.5x3.5 inches. It is mixed media on illustration board. It is called Something To Believe In.

My Little World

I did this sketch of my property just for fun. It includes some future projects like the little greenhouse at the bottom.

Grrr!

Cat moment

This is Io my old cat. She enjoys sun bathing, long walks around the house at night, helping me paint, sleeping in sweaters...and biting...and peeing all over the living room.

Sunset

This is what my view looked like the other night. I wish I could get a picture of this but they move to fast...the batties are out in abundance lately. They love to fly down our ravine towards the sea and back again.

There will always be

This is a drawing I just did a couple of days ago. It is actually finished now but my scanner isn't hooked up. Hopefully I will have a finished pic to show soon.

Squid in progress

Stir Crazy

Well Kalli is on the mend and I...am completely stir crazy! I have been stuck inside for days on end for the most part. The dang splints keep slipping off so Kalli has to be "watched". Ugh! But she does seem to be healing. You can tell how much time I have been spending with the dogs by the number of photos of them I am going to subject you all too!

I have been making some fun dishes while she is healing. I made this spicy lemongrass tofu bowl from one of my favorite videocasts made by The Culinary Institute of America. This is a professional videocast and wow do they make great stuff! Also in the video casts are some culinary tours of other countries.



Even while healing Kalli has to take care of Binah

Drying herbs

A couple of weeks ago I dried more herbs. Sage, Lemon Verbena and Lemon Balm. I also opened up the herbs I had hung to dry a month or so ago and put the dried herbs into tiny jam jars. Everything worked great accept for the tarragon...which smelled icky and was black. So I will have to search the net to find a better way to dry that. (If anyone out there knows let me know!)

Life is beautiful

I am lucky to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world. It is rural but Seattle is not too far away. While being rural it is not too "small townish". In other words everyone isn't in everyone elses business and that sort of thing. I am just finishing the novel Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. Hansville has no main street. :)





A visitor to the suet outside my studio