Month: December 2024

Bruce and I wish you and yours a happy, healthy year ahead!

Wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas and Hannukah!

This “Christmas tree” is covered with monarch butterflies emerging from their chrysalises in the forest in Mexico. I painted this a decade ago when I visited this site; it came to mind when I read that monarchs are now considered a threatened species. Monarchs need milkweed to reproduce, so we are planting some in our backyard. See this link for how you can help.

Red and green are my favorite colors, which is fun at Christmas time. Here are two versions of the same cyclamen, painted in an acrylics class taught by Lisa Daria Kennedy. She taught us how to use thin layers of paint to produce a more luminous quality.

How often do we buy, cook and eat vegetables without really seeing them?