Life is Changing

I have no idea how December and January got away from me, only that they did. Today is January 28. The month is almost gone. How does time travel so quickly? All my plans for January were good plans. I accomplished some of my goals but not all. Here I am today trying to cram what's left of the task list into today and tomorrow. The 30th and 31st are Saturday and Sunday, and marking another task off the list is a moot point by the weekend. Saturday I work at Spring Cottage Gallery in Old Town Spring, Texas. Sunday is my one day of rest. December was filled with Christmas. January was filled with inauguration and more division. 

Life is changing in America. Keep your faith. Ultimately, God is in control. 

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Keep Plugging Away at Paintings

Hello. Sometimes I feel like I keep plugging away and wonder when the fantastic results might be coming my way. 

The still life on the left is titled Grandma's Camera and was painted several years back and was sort of a breakthrough painting for me and is one of my favorites I ever painted. This old box camera belonged to my maternal grandmother. I had at one point shown the painting to be sold. It was purchased by a dear friend Miss Dot who returned the painting to me a few year's later before her death. How sweet was that! She knew how much personal connection was in the painting.

Grandma's Camera 

oil paint on linen

24x20 inches

NFS, in the Artist's personal collection

The still life on the right was painted since the one above but still several years ago. This one simply titled Dogwood Crockery and is another of my favorites I ever painted. This painting pictures dogwood flowers on branches off my late mother's dogwood tree. Since Mom was already gone, I gave it to my Aunt Mollie. One of my cousins now has the painting. I think she loves it as much as I do.

Dogwood Crockery

oil paint on linen

20x16 inches

Sold, in a private collection

My goal for the month of November is to keep plugging away. 

Until next time,

V.

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A Time for Everything

Time has a way of slipping away quickly as Simon & Garfunkel understood. I recently noticed that fact when I realized my little Boxer girl had been with me for three years already. She was two when she arrived as a rescue on October 29, 2017, and now she is five years old. We have been good for each other. Other signs of time passing are when I look at my grandsons and realize they have grown into young men. Then there is that mirror image face with the wrinkles and the turkey neck I see every morning and every night. Ah well ... this is the way of time. 

 

A Time for Everything

 

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

New International Version 

Wake up in the morning to appreciate and enjoy each day.

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