Photographs: Longwood Gardens

We visited Longwood Gardens and got to see some beautiful gardens.

Interesting Attic Finds, or Trash

Here are some interesting finds in the attic. The previous owners saved the bottles, jars and containers from the 1970's. There were cologne bottles, liquor bottles, Hershey's cans, vaseline jars, Noxema jars, aspirin bottles... you name it. Someone was a little strange. The boxes in the second photo were filled. All together there were probably 15 boxes.

Coexisting for 1 minute

Here's Penny and Cezanne. Peaceful and then Penny freaks out.

Living Room Renovation Art

Here are some closeups of some areas in my living room. As you might guess, they need to be covered up. The view out the peep hole in the front door is there, to0.

Current Blooms

There a few flowers blooming around my house. The irises were transplanted from my last house and those had been transplanted, too. They were given to me by my friend, Diana. The columbine were here when we moved in, I think. I planted the camomile and that has been spreading. It's taller than I thought it would be. The camomile at our last place grew closer to the ground almost like a ground cover. Maybe it reacted to the wet soil there. Who knows? The last are jack-in-the-pulpits. I might have pulled those out for a couple of years thinking they were weeds. Next post, I will take some abstract pics of the living room renovation.

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, mom. I'm trying to upload a pic of mom, but I've been having trouble.
If the image shows up you will see my mom on the bottom left of the picture the light blue sweater.

I keep getting messages from my terrific student Katie. I just got on your blog and will respond!

May Art

I have some new paintings to show off. The flower ones are small: 4" X 6" to 5" X 7". I think my favorite is the hens and chickens.




The pitchers are a few years old. I gave this painting to my sister and never photographed it. Finally, I visited her in Sandpoint, ID and photographed it. I'm hoping people like it and buy the card version. What do you think?
I'm going to be selling my cards, some block prints and paintings at a local shop. I'm working on getting everything ready. I made some business cards and I need to stuff cards and envelopes into small glassine bags.

Home Renovation

Our dining room and kitchen are DONE! I can't show you the dining room now because it has a lot of the elements, okay, junk, from the living room in it because the living room is being rewired. First I will show some of the BEFORE pics and then you can see the AFTER shots. Matt did the electric, installed the cabinets, added the moulding... I did the wall treatment. Oh, I need to add a close up of that. Matt and I did the tiling. I am so glad it's done. I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am.




I need to retake this picture without the flowers in the way of seeing the sink.
We're going to put a cover over the radiater. Matt's supposed to make it.


You can catch a glimpse of the "devil" cat. This morning I turned my back sitting at the table eating my egg and ham sandwich when Cezanne lifted my ham and took off with it. The other day he knocked a lidded pan of brownies off the counter, broke it in a hundred pieces, but managed to eat a portion of them.

Here is one of the doors in the house I refinished. It's not supposed to look perfect. It's from 1921, after all.
Here is the counter top. The photo isn't clear, so I'll replace it soon.

Let me know what you think. Add to my blog. :)