The fog comes and goes
Lingers over peaceful coves
Wish you were as free.
Art Prescription: Nature’s lesson.
A life by the sea
Open sails, smell of salt air
Just how small we are.
Another day in
Paradise, pools and long hikes
Great falls cascade down.
Art Prescription: Can you imagine a great waterfall cascading down the side of a rain forest mountain?
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor

Deep among palm trees
A paradise of color
A tropical perch!
Art Prescription: As fall creeps into the Carolina’s, I went down south a bit with my paint brush.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor

With each new look up
I see more leaves losing green
Gaining fall color.
Art Prescription: I love fall! Each season has beauty and gifts, and I will miss summer’s pollinators!
Index card with watercolor:


Purple coneflower
Petals whither, fresh thistle
For yellow goldfinch.
Art Prescription: I so enjoy hearing the sweet sound of the goldfinches coming for thistle.
Watercolor with my chop that says “hope”

August is leaving
Long hot days, cooler mornings
September at door.
Art Prescription: A late summer posey on a 5 x 7 index card…watercolor.

Adult coloring
A garden on paper for
Colored pencil fun.
Art Prescription: Tomorrow I’m teaching an adult coloring class at the NC Botanical Garden. “Teaching” coloring doesn’t really represent what I do. What I will really be doing is giving adults permission to play. To allow themselves the freedom to put color to paper while their blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing all slow down to a meditative state.
Here is my colored version of the pen and ink:

Intention is strong
An emotion of pure will
An owl on the hunt.
Art Prescription: Our desires inform our life. If we pay attention to our wants, our needs will be fulfilled.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor
