Moonlight and holiday lights

This month we had such a gorgeous full moon that came

in tandem with everyone's holiday lights. I was able to

catch this shot just as the moon was coming up and I do

think it should probably be posted on my Art and Life

Interwoven....my other blog to which you can find the link

on the right side of this page.

Wishing you a new year filled with all you desire on every

level of life and living!

Waaaaaaaaaaay too much dessert!

The first part of this holiday meal was

fantastic, but the visual art is in the

desserts! Greek delights that are

homemade and delicious!

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

To all of you who have made this year so wonderful.

May your holidays with friends and loved ones be just

as you imagined it to be!

Up close and beautiful

This candle sat on my porch this summer. It was really hot

for several months and it began to sag with all that heat.

I brought it in when the season changed and it just sat on

my counter for a long time until I began my holiday decorating.

I love flickering friendliness of candles and so I looked at this

one again. Inside the bent over column was what you see here,

something quite beautiful. Rather like a cave with wonderful

formations.

This candle means even more to me than its recently discovered

beauty. It was one of two tall columns that were at my parents

memorial service some years ago. My sister and I each took one

after the service was over. I decided to keep using it and it is

yet another way that I remember all they were to me which was

as good as it gets.

Merry Christmas. Light a candle.

Waters House in Germantown, Maryland

I started this painting earlier this year. It was going to be in

a show at this house which is owned by the Historical Society

in this county. But due to budget cuts, it is not open to the

public now. So the painting languished until recently when

I got it out and decided to complete it. It is pretty much done,

though I need to study it a bit more to see if I want to do

anything else to it. The big tree took as long to do as the house!

SO many branches.

This painting is 12" x 24" in oil. I hope you like it. It is rather

a different subject for me from what I have been doing!

Cat commission full size!

OK folks, I just put up the previous post, and

then realized I hadn't put put a photograph that

shows you the whole painting!

Here it is! Those shadows are what attracted me

to doing this painting in the first place!