This is one of my favourite times of year. Longer daylight hours, the bright greens of the new leaves opening up and all the spring buds and flowers. I just love the flowering apples, crab apples, magnolia and lilacs….so fleeting, but so gorgeous and some enchanting fragrances.  Here are a couple spring photos that I […]

Although spring has finally arrived, it still feels like winter as I woke up to snow this morning (April 3). Surprisingly, I still have had an urge to paint winter scenes of snow and the gorgeous tree shadows in interesting shades of blue, purple and aqua. I am really amazed by this urge, as anyone […]

This winter started out very mild with little snow. Our family ended up going to Cozumel, Mexico to help my parent’s celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. There were 15 of us all together with my two sisters and their families. One of my favourite moments was going diving with 2 of my kids and a […]

Boy we have had a beautiful fall season this year! Many mild days…so unusual for November. During the month of October, I had the privilege of attending a weekend long painting workshop at the Ottawa home of Gordon Harrison’s. I decided since the leaves were in full colour to paint a fall Algonquin Park scene, […]

Well summer seemed to fly by and now it had been a month being back at school. I really had fun yurt camping at Cypress Lake Provincial Park, near Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula. It was really like luxury camping having a roof over our heads, a large deck with a barbeque as well as […]

I am excited it is summer and have been enjoying getting away from the daily grind and living by my own schedule. I love being awakened by the sunlight as opposed to a loud alarm clock. Earlier in the summer I completed a large 30” X 30” painting of Magnolias in Central Park. I had […]