Goldenrod

Thistle, Butterfly, Bee

Roses

These pictures are taking themselves. a bit overwhelming in a way. I don't mind. Time to PAINT. Let them paint themselves.

The second pouring

Want to write about tea. The second pouring. John1 told me about how the first pouring of water into the tea was only for the rinsing of the cup.
The second pouring is sweeter. I have found even with regular grocerystore green tea this is true. Strange how I never figured that out before.

Springtime!

My heart is happy. Digging out from under in this spring/winter changing time. My paintings are circling. The Studio is becoming real again. Only got a few pictures one day of the dogwoods before their blossoms froze. Thinking of last year at this time. I was visiting New Orleans for the first time after Katrina. Still find it difficult to speak of much.

"Katrina" '06 acrylic on canvas, martha mcLeod

Tall Trees

Skyfingers

Took this last night. Thinking about a painting or group of them called Pilgrimage, maybe this has something to do with it.

Twilight

This is what it looked like last evening across the road from where I live.

This one "in progress" is called Rimeice because you can see the rime ice on the far mountains.

Four trees & some grass~~~ still in progress.

I'm Back

New start.
Been painting trees, keeping up with the news. Learning about MySpace. Somehow my Gemini nature needs several venues .The New School Of Complete Reality & The Paintings have taken over at mARThaMySpace.

That's a good thing.Thinking over here to write more about the process so I don't forget what I'm doing. I've just been able in the past few weeks to be able to take my own photographs. John1 loaned me an older model digital camera which uses a floppy disk. I'm having fun. Taking shots of my paintings as they go along. It's so helpful to have a version of the painting I'm workingon on my desktop so it can be seen in it's small form. Also running it through some effects or as a slide show is a handy way to save hours of recovery from some glazing experiment gone awry.