GlowSticks......

 

 

 

 

The girls had a great time playing with glow sticks and bathing. Getting ready for bed is lots more fun with glow sticks.

Claming at Copalis Beach

 

Acrylic 12x24 on canvas.
Painted in 2010 and repainted 2011 in class at Art's Umbrella
Matt is digging for razor clams at Copalis Beach on the coast of Washington state.

Maicey and Payton Visit

It was an explosion of pink at our house this weekend. Maicey and Payton came to spend two days. We will paint and craft and scoure the neighborhood for interesting adventures. We found moss and sticks today for Maicey's spring nest. Payton is in her three month outfits now and sleeping well. Growing fast.

 

 

 

Snow Geese and Trumpeter Swan

We went for a drive Sunday up through Mt Vernon and LaConner,the Skagit Valley. There were fields and fields of Snow Geese and Trumpeter Swans all over. They were resting in the fields as they make their miagration. Very Very noisy as they honk and fly about. Seemed odd to see swans walking around as they are usually only floating in a lake.

 

 

Crossing the Puget Sound

 

30x24 acrylic on canvas. Painted 2011....Art's Umbrella class.
I took a picture of a ferry boat that I liked.
I made up the evening sunset scenery.

COUNTRY VILLAGE

 

We spent a day at Country Village....it was like summer....63 degrees. Maicey loves to shop thru the antique stores. She picked out several things she wanted to add to her Christmas list.

 

Mr Rooster and his Hen were out enjoying the sun. Maicey likes to look for chicken poop....this is the place to find it.... that's for sure.

 

The wisteria bushs were in bud....that is a gigantic pile of snow in the background next to the hotdog stand.

 

When we got home from Country Village the girls had a session at the.................. WACK AND YAK.....

The Girls

 

Maicey and Payton.....February 1, 2012

Red Fox

Seattle Times Reader Photos of the Year, 2011
Grand Prize Winner
Photographer: Leslie Otto, Bellevue
Photo taken: Nov. 24, Mount Rainier National Park

Great Danes

 

This is a fun card I found of Great Danes. Reminds me of Sinatra

Baby in a cardboard box

Delight in your day. Embrace each moment.
All of your life is a miracle

 

The electricity was out at Dax and Katie's house so they spent a few days with Poppa and Marmor.
Payton seemed fine in her cardboard box.

National Bison Range

 

Acrylic Painting of the National Bison Range....
Flathead Indian Reservation....Paradise, Montana.

I took a photo while we were on our trip to Glacier National Park and there were no buffalo roaming. It was beautiful to look out on the prairie and imagine millions of buffalo running across the plain. The clouds that day were boiling up over the mountain range and it all ended up working well to make a great painting.

Acrylic by Mike....24x12...painted 2011....class at Art's Umbrella...instructor Ted Pankowski

Windy Acres Belle of the Ball.

 

Aunt Sue and Uncle Terry
2012 Ft Worth,Texas Livestock Show
Windy Acres Belle of the Ball - Overall Grand Champion Doe.

They raise these goats to sell for breeding.
The goats are raised for their meat.


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Snow Ice Cream

 

Poppa taught Maicey how to make snow ice cream.
Clean white snow.....vanilla.....milk....mix and then eat as
much as you can before it melts.
YUMMY....YUMMY......YUMMY
and the main secret of snow ice cream....never/never/never/never eat yellow snow!!!