HOW I WASTED MY EVENING

 Wondering who would be next.

Grumpy Cat!

Save Bill Posters!

If you go hiking, go with children.

Blue is my favorite color.

yeah!

Okay, now what?

1. What is the speed of dark?

2.  How do you know when you run out of invisible ink?

3.  If Barbie is so popular why do we have to buy friends for her?

4.  What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

KNOWING MORE THAN WE UNDERSTAND

As I was growing up, I always had the feeling that I understood a lot more than I knew.

When I listen to my grandchildren, I think they know a lot more than they understand.  

Grandparents are similar to a piece of string--handy to have around

and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.

All grandchildren are brilliant, beautiful and take after their grandmother.

We gave our children love, nurturing and just enough

dysfunction to make them funny.

We can tell our grandchildren we are older than the internet, 

older than television and the only thing we are

afraid of is stepping on Legos.

BANJO, BABY, BOOGIE AND BARN

While wandering through the stalls of a lush Farmers' Market in Bellingham, Washington one afternoon I came upon a gentleman picking out a lively jig on his banjo.  As I was photographing the sunlight on his beard and nimble fingers, a baby broke away from her mother and began dancing to the music. 

 A small crowd gathered to watch the toddler's carefree and joyful reaction to the beat.  

This is my watercolor version of the occasion.

This is my contribution to the Virtual Paintout for January 2013.  The location was the Isle of Man, an island located between England and Ireland in the Irish Sea.  I "traveled" using Google Streetview down the rural roads of the island looking at green fields dotted with sheep and grazing cattle.  At the end of a lane I discovered a rustic dairy.  The stone barn had windows and doors painted red and a cow grazed contentedly in the nearby pasture.  Both of these paintings are for sale here on my Etsy site.