Let me introduce you to Lois Brummitt. We've been close, good friends for twenty-three years. We meet in a mutual friend's garden (Diane Button) during a North Carolina Unit of Herb Society of America meeting in May, 1992. And today when we are out together we're often asked if we're sisters. People even call us by the other's name. (And we answer!!)

I've always watched in amazement at how creative Lois is in every area of her life. She's a decorator extraordinaire, a gourmet cook, a fashionista,...

Once or twice a week I receive posts from a blog called My Country French Home written by this gal Sharon Santoni, who lives in the Normandy area of France.  She goes on "loot shoots" which is what we call "junking" or "antiquing" here.  She then photographs her finds...

When asked "what do you paint" I always say I'm a landscape painter. Yet, when I take a look back at my iPhoto file of 'My Paintings' I see lots of things, not just landscapes. So who am I as a painter? Well, it's obvious I'm more than a landscape painter. 

When I started out painting I thought I'd be a flower painter. I had enjoyed...

As promised, an image of the final painting is included here, at the bottom of this post. BUT I want to tell you something that I'm really excited about, as I've contemplated the progress and completion of this painting. Although my painting is filled with a large expanse of blue, I also included dark at the top and side to represent distant space. And in distant space, nothing shows up clearly. Instead, what does that look like? 

Here's a photograph I found back in December,

I'm a morning person. If I sleep past nine o'clock I feel I've 'lost' a whole day. Fortunately, I have a Facebook friend in Florida who is a 'real deal' morning person. He gets up before daybreak every single day of the year to be on the beach at dawn and photograph the arrival of the morning. He shoots hundreds of shots, then returns home to edit the work. Afterward he puts three to twelve of his best shots on FB before eight am. WOW! He generously asks his friends to use, or copy the ones they like or want. 

I want to show you one he recently posted.