Back to Work - Bummer

I can't believe that I have to go back to work! How inconvenient for me since I was hoping to be around for when my dad gets the results of his most recent tests. Oh well! I have until June 15th to close up my Dad's apartment. Gawd! I absolutely hate that job! It just seems like I cleaned out his house (it was just a year and a half ago after all!).

I have almost finished my niece's wedding card so I am very happy about that! I just have to make the envelope yet but I have two weeks so I'm not going to stress out over it.

I cancelled my art class for the summer because I just didn't think that I would be able to "do" everything and get bogged down and not be able to do the art homework each week. It is an expensive class so I don't want to waste my money. I have been thinking about trying out some classes that I see on the internet that I can do at my own pace. Hmmm sounds like a possiblity.

Blooms are here,summer is coming!

I still go and see my Dad almost everyday at the hospital but since I am on holidays I try to do something creative once in awhile. Sometimes it is just my camera and what I see in the world around me. Sometimes that has to be good enough.

I went for a walk a few days ago and decided to take a detour in the woods and by chance it was the right day. I found these lovely trillium that are in full bloom. I have not noticed them anywhere else so I was especially happy to come across them.

I really am so lucky to be able to take a walk in the woods. Actually it is a skidoo path but that is okay with me since it makes it so easy to walk under the canopy.

So it seems that everything is in bloom in readiness for summer. At first, I thought the flowers below were for some sort of weed until I took a better look and realized that these pretty little flowers will soon be wild strawberries. YUM! YUM!

I have said it before and I will say it again...I love spring and I love summer!

Objects are Smaller than they Appear

It makes me chuckle every time I see the caution statement on the side mirror of my car, "Objects are closer than they appear" . In this picture the minnows are smaller than their shadows. I am not a fisher woman, it is my husband who claims that interest but I know we have a "minnow can" somewhere in the garage. Regardless as to the smallness of some of them, I think that the holes would not be large enough to capture some of these bait fish. Not that my hubby is really interested since he is away on his annual fishing trip with the "boys" up north (a four hour trek)

I have been trying to finish off my wedding card for my nieces wedding that is fast approaching. In the meantime, I have decided to get my brushes in some paint and slap it on a blank canvas that I have had hanging on the wall. I had found it at a local charity shop but had to gesso out the horrible picture that had been digitally sprayed on my machine. The canvas is completely square and measures 22" x 22". It will be a simple painting because I don't have the time for something too time consuming and complex but I am just so happy to be mixing pigment and getting paint on my brush! This really satisfies my attention deficient disorder; while I am waiting for the paint to dry on the card project then I get add the next layer to the painting.

What is this?

Since my dad had taken ill again and has now been diagnosed with a terminal cancer, I haven't been spending as much time on-line or doing any sort of art. I've got to clean out his apartment, make sure he is properly taken care of , pay his bills and that sort of thing. It is a lot of responsibility. He has made some specific requests as to what he wants at his funeral and I am not sure just how to go about it. The piper is easy as there is a local pipes and drums corp that do play at funerals. It is the pall bearers that I am having some difficulties with. I have no idea who to contact at the local armed forces base to ask if they can send 6 men and perform a community service for a 91 year old retired serviceman.

I was trawling the internet last night and came across a photograph of what was likely a ceiling to a church or some other historical type building. I think my drawing looks a bit like a spider web and I wonder if the design was created originally from that motif. However, I had a few minutes of time so I made a sort of "zentangle" of the photograph. Now that I look at it and if I was to imagine myself as being "very small" and looking up at a ceiling; now I can "see" that it indeed could be a ceiling of a church. Having said that, I am also looking at it with a different perspective. What other ways could this pattern, this motif be used? Would it lend itself to a rendition in fibre art or a mixed media piece? Hmm... I think there are certainly possibilities.