special wishes for a Fun Guy!

Happy Birthday, to a
very dear friend.

It's a Big Birthday for him today.
I hope he's in the mood to celebrate.
Perhaps these seeds will put him in the mood.

... yes, i'm quite funny. i do believe
he gets No Kicks from a sunflower seed.


Maybe this link to this musical video will
get him in the Birthday mood!
Yahoo!




Hmm. If you're not familiar
with Les Tetes a claques, is this
still the funniest birthday song?


And if you can't see the video (above),
Click here on THIS link....

and what does a HOT garden look like ..

Happy Friday.

in case you wondered what
was going on with your week,
Mercury is in Retrograde.

Go ahead and laugh. But
haven't you had a weird week?
think about it.
Haven't strange
things been happening? and things
breaking... things going not the way
you had planned.

well, check out what
Georgia Nicols has to say,
for the week starting July 31. Click Here.


now, back to our featured
outdoor scene...





This is an opposite
sort of view than our Kitchen
window views of January and February.
Well, and let's be honest. Quite opposite
of March and April, as well. Our snow lasted
quite a long time this year.

and here is one more view
of a Roaming neighbourhood feline.
The Knitting Companion loves cats.
All Cats.

Birthday tribute for Maggie . . .

Considering that my
dear friend Maggie
lives with a
Rock & Roll King,
perhaps this Birthday Tribute
would have been more appropriate.

Hmm.... I hope that she has
fun making her choice. . . .

Summer.

This little violet seems happy enough.
I wonder when it will finally bloom?

art house

The next Sketchbook project by
the fabulous organization
of "art house co-op"
is underway for 2012.
Like many
of the other projects, this
project will go on tour.
What's new and exciting,
the tour will also be exhibited in
Australia and the UK and in Canada.
i am thrilled that the tour will
be seen outside of the USA for the first time.

Click on this link for Art House.
If you have a few minutes, you can
look around at the participating artists
and be inspired by the works. My work has now been
digitized. You can find it at the site.

stay with your beliefs

"In preparing a picture,
it seems to me very important
to begin by an indication
of the darkest values--and to
continue in order to the lightest value.
From the darkest to the lightest
I would establish twenty shades."
(Camille Corot)


"He is still the strongest.
He anticipated everything."
(Edgar Degas)

Ray Charles

Happy Birthday to my Great friend,
Maggie.

I love this song, and i think Maggie
will have fun hearing it, here.


Hit the Road, Jack.
recorded Live.

Ray Charles will make you want
to dance . and sing.
I love the Backup singer
ladies.
they rock.





can't see the video yet?
click here.

you can say that again . . .

"It is in the search
for quality that the artist is,
of necessity,
the eternal student."

(Rex Brandt)