New Years Greeting

May the new year be sparkling and filled with

magical moments in nature.

Happy New Year!

The Birds and the First Snow

The first snow of the season and some of the birds who

visited our yard...

A Rainy Day

Spotted a pair of mergansers in the rain….

and along the shore this happy dog was a very good 

frisbee player.

Winter Solstice

Happy Winter Solstice

Our resident little red squirrel enjoying berries

Way up in the crabapple tree a bluebird stopped by...

The cardinals brighten the scene.

What we are missing on this day is snow.

The temperatures are very mild for this time of year.

A Favorite Spot

This is a new favorite spot for Josie's naps.

Peace

and love

and the beauty and lovely surprises in nature

on our walks around the village we collected chestnuts

to share with squirrels and chipmunks in our yard

and this little red squirrel 

discovered them.

Now they are all gone.

Painting with Josie

While in the midst of painting autumn leaves

this morning, Josie hopped up to supervise

and meditate.

We grew some vegetables in containers on our deck

and these are our own eggplants saved from the frost.

I find them so beautiful that I am painting some of

them which makes it difficult to actually cook with them!
I've been enjoying painting from life what we have grown…
the tomatoes, Asian pears, squash, apples, peppers,
  eggplants and leaves so far.

A Baby Snapping Turtle

While taking a walk on our street this morning

I discovered a baby snapping turtle in the road.

It must have just hatched.

My husband picked it up and escorted it through

the yard and woods to the brook where it swam away.

We wish it a good life!

The birds of summer through my art

I've been painting birds this summer and here are

some of them.

The endangered piping plovers and chicks are

so endearing to see in person from a distance.

Love the kingfisher and have been delighted

to see it rest on a branch over a marsh.

In our garden I caught sight of a mama finch

feeding her baby. The baby was bigger than her.

You can see those and lots more on my website.

Here's a link to the prints of birds section.

There's many categories and choices within those.

Thanks for looking!

Spring is Full of Surprises

We put the hummingbird feeder out about a week ago

and the hummingbirds did find it to our delight.

Then we had another visitor to the hummingbird feeder…

The oriole loves this.

And chippy has discovered a new safe place.

I had never seen this bird before and I discovered

it is called a Canada warbler.