Hello everyone! I just wanted to post a quick "thank you" to everyone for being so wonderful and supportive. It truly fills my heart when you leave me such lovely, kind comments and e-mails.
It's not easy to show my creative efforts so publicly as I re-discover my love of making art. I've always been rather shy about showing what I've made. When I was a child, and into my early teens, I was actually repeatedly discouraged from painting and drawing by my father, who painted as a hobby. I feel like I've finally overcome the decades-long shadows that those early experiences cast on me. It's about time, too, I think!
It's not easy to show my creative efforts so publicly as I re-discover my love of making art. I've always been rather shy about showing what I've made. When I was a child, and into my early teens, I was actually repeatedly discouraged from painting and drawing by my father, who painted as a hobby. I feel like I've finally overcome the decades-long shadows that those early experiences cast on me. It's about time, too, I think!
So I took some pictures of one of my favorite flowers for you. Rudbeckia, or Black-Eyed Susans, are one of the easiest perennial flowers to grow here in my little garden. I leave them standing throughout the Fall and Winter, since many different birds love to pick at the seeds all the way through until the following Spring, when I cut them down again.
Our cat, Skitzi, loves them, too! In fact, she sticks her nose into any flower she can get close to. Often I find her with little yellow powdery traces on her little black nose.
I'll be back again in a few days. It seems that my son and daughter are no longer embarrassed to be seen with me in public anymore. That teen-age phase has passed! I think it has something to do with the fact that I can buy them things like clothes and textbooks when they let me come along. As college students, they're really beginning to understand the value of a dollar.
We have some shopping to do!
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I'm just grateful we can spend some time together this Summer.
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Next time I hope to have something creative to post about again.
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I'll be back again in a few days. It seems that my son and daughter are no longer embarrassed to be seen with me in public anymore. That teen-age phase has passed! I think it has something to do with the fact that I can buy them things like clothes and textbooks when they let me come along. As college students, they're really beginning to understand the value of a dollar.
We have some shopping to do!
:0)
I'm just grateful we can spend some time together this Summer.
:0)
Next time I hope to have something creative to post about again.
:0)
