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What a rough winter remembering warm sunny days and flowers.  If anything my appreciation will increase this summer.

It's a busy time lining up adventures for summer and working on other paintings.

Hopefully my artist residency application to the Porcupine Mountains in the Upper Peninsula for two weeks of painting will come to fruition or my stay as a lighthouse keeper in Tawas will happen.  Actually I want to do both.

In my studio is a 24 x 48 inch painting of trees and a still life 20 x 24 that have been getting my attention lately so you aren't seeing as many daily paintings this month.

Radiant in yellow

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Looking back into the summer photographs from the garden for this one.  This was a new purchase and it did good in my yard, yeah!  This bloom was about six inches wide and the plant had lot's of blooms.   This became a negative painting as those shapes were grabbing my attention.  It was a technique taught for watercolors and it works with oils.

Enduring

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What a toughie still hanging around after a week of hard frost.  These could become my favorite flower if they were a perennial.   I purchased some yellow daisies this year that make me think they are getting pretty close to developing a similar breed.  My horticulture skills are very limited.  Gardening is my willingness to pull weeds and play in the dirt.  The blooming of the flowers is what excites me and makes the work worthwhile.