lovin' the spring flowers

I've been waiting for the bluebonnets to bloom for a couple of weeks now.   They are finally blooming!  They still have a ways to go before they are in full bloom, but they are still very pretty.  Roy and I went for a walk with the dogs yesterday.  There is a place where the bluebonnets were fairly thick and Lucy was standing in them.  When I tried to take a picture of her, she moved.  I still wanted the picture, so I took one of her posed.  In the mean time, Larry was in the back ground, sitting and staying, just like I was telling Lucy to do!  He's such a good dog!!

Lucy sitting pretty

Larry looking pretty in the bluebonnets

I took a few more pictures of the wild flowers today and yesterday.  These are some of my favorite wild flowers.

purple verbena

phlox

evening primrose

This week I will be posting the work of some fellow Etsy shop owners.  Please check back often and see who I have featured for the week. 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/jackrabbitflats

Betty

gray days

I have always disliked cloudy, gray days. I tend to have a bit of SAD, I think. This has been a cloudy and dreary day. Today I decided to see the beauty in dreary days.

The first thing that I should like about cloudy days is that sometimes they bring much needed rain. It hasn't rained today, but it is supposed to Fri. or Sat. Rain brings grass up for the cows and donkeys and I appreciate that! The picture of the windmill is pretty, I think, but it doesn't show what was really going on. This picture doesn't show the darkness of the rain clouds and the weather that was going on. I really wanted to show the dark clouds, but they show up more as a blue sky background. My blue lacy dogs enjoying the rain that came after the picture that I took of the windmill with the rain clouds in the background.


Today, as I was going to the mail box, the sun was peeking out of the clouds for just a bit. How beautiful it was, just causing the clouds to glow a bit. Wish I had the camera with me!

At first I thought that I would post something to brighten up the day. Then, I thought, that if I am going to like gray days, then I need to not worry about brightening them up! I have a few pictures that I think are just beautiful and just like the day, they are gray. Hope that you enjoy them.


A beautiful, old, gray tree stump.












An uprooted tree with the rocks still in them.















A pile of puppies that are called blue Lacys, but like greyhounds they are really gray. They are known as blue lacys or lacy dogs. They were bred in Texas back in the 1850s.
















And, last but not least, a picture of an altered art cross that I did that is done in beautiful grays.

new to blogging

This is my 3rd attempt at putting up a blog. I think that I may be successful this time! I tried blog.com, which was a total failure because for some reason I could never get them to send my activation email. After numerous attempts to rectify that, I deleted that blog and went to Word Press. There I found that I had to download the program and that sounded like more than I wanted to do. A friend suggested that I try Blogger, so here I am.

I still have a lot to learn and am not deleting my WP blog as I think that I can be more artistic with WP and since this blog is going to be about art in my life, I think that the blog needs to be as pretty as possible. It will, however take me a while to get the WP blog up and running.

My blog will be my thoughts about art and life. Life will include things that occur as I go through my daily life. Some of that will be art and some of it will be things that I think are important that I want to share with the world. I hope that people will enjoy my blog and follow me as I go along.

The picture is of my garden this spring. I love gardening and it is art that I create with plants. I'm not totally responsible for the beautiful garden. Roy often gives me objects to put in my garden. But, the good Lord helps me a lot. In this case, he placed the wild bluebonnets and the verbenas in the garden. Also in the picture is my dog, Abraham.



Betty