Hello,August!

Where did July go?It passed so fast!I was planning to blog a lot,to post more pictures from our trip to Bulgaria.What happened?I don't know.Maybe the beautiful weather was in the way urging us to go out and enjoy it while we have it.Bike rides,tending a vegetable patch,play dates for the guinea pigs,hanging the laundry on the clothes line outdoors.The wonderful little joys of summer!
And then the horrible things that happened in the world...leaving me in deep sadness, helpless to find words to express it.Random cruelty,wars,hundreds of innocent lives taken.When will it end...?It is hard to find words...

Spring.Postcards from our garden.

There is some relieve and joy and happiness that spring is finally here.It is still cooler than it is supposed to be at this time of the year but the flowers are blooming,the birds are chirping and the sunshine shows up once in a while.Our Guinea pigs had their first play date outside.It was fun to watch them hopping and running around the pen.As you can see we have a new Guinea pig.His name is Pip/My daughter got him as a present from a friend.He is very cute and likes to be petted.What he does not like is to be picked up.He gets very nervous when he is in the air and starts squealing just like a pig.I am going to post more pictures of Pip in the next posts for sure.All the pictures in this post but the second one were taken by my daughter.She is getting really good at that!

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Random pictures from June. Unpredictable weather, rain and sunshine, rain and sunshine, then rain again. The level of the rivers are high giving reasons for worries. We are in and out, in and out, trying to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible. A regular work week with no much time and energy for creativity. Substituting drawing with photography. Finding the beauty in the everyday life. Tending to a sick Guinea pig. He got his last dose of antibiotic yesterday and he is feeling much better.

Garden inpressions

A beautiful weekend so far.A shopping trip and supper at a restaurant with delicious food yesterday.More art supplies for me and my daughter,one can never have enough art supplies!Scored not one but two issues of my favourite magazine Country Living the British edition at Barnes &Noble.It has never happened before.Lucky me!Today the plans are 1. bike ride-check 2.jumble berry jem-the berries are on sale-the recepe here 3.swimming pool-the weather calls for it.
These pictures are from our garden.I hope you have a nice weekend you all.

Four sketches from the last weekend

Last Saturday my husband took my daughter fishing and I had some more ME time.I used it sketching from life in our back yard.I did not take long to find an interesting subject matter.When I was done with one thing I just had to turn my chair around and start to paint a another one.I had been trying to do that for several weekends but every time something would happen and would stop me from doing that.I used my favourite watercolor pencils Faber Castell and ink pen Pilot.

Our Garden

Here you can enjoy pictures of our garden or may be it is right to say my husband's garden.Gardening is his hobby and I am just an admirer.I like to take pictures of the flowers and the plants and recently I have got interested in buying decorations for the garden.

The Flower Place-Watercolor #3

This flower business is situated in Iowa.My husband likes to go there because they have a great choice of plants and a gorgeous garden.I like to go with him because I collect a lot of reference photos of plants and flowers ,trees and birds.

My reference photo is from last spring.