Nature’s ornaments
A flock of cedar waxwings
Tails tipped bright yellow.
Art Prescription: Index card with colored pencil:

Nature’s ornaments
A flock of cedar waxwings
Tails tipped bright yellow.
Art Prescription: Index card with colored pencil:

Holiday posy
White and green chrysanthemums
Festive red rose hips.
Art Prescription: I really enjoyed putting together festive holiday mini-bouquets for my friends and neighbors.
8 x 8 watercolor, pen and ink and colored pencil

Friday after work
I slide on for gentle ride
Finn’s steady bare-back.
Art Prescription: Just me and Finn on a cool December day.
Index card with pen and ink and colored pencil:
Winter trees shimmer
Under light cast by street lamps
Asymmetrical.
Art Prescription: Evening walks this time of year quickly turn into night-time. I enjoy the sculpture quality of bare winter branches in the light of the street lamps.
8 x 8 acrylic

When the time was right
Some holly and mistletoe
Were offered as gifts.
Art Prescription: Nature offers up gifts all year long. My hope for peace for all beings goes out to the universe.
Index card with colored pencil and pen and ink

Seventy degrees
Shorts and tees in December
Santa needs sunscreen!!
Art Prescription: I’m not complaining as Finn and I had a lovely sunny walk (sort-of he is very interested in eating grass). However, “dashing through the snow” is highly unlikely this Christmas season.
Watercolor and pen and ink 8 x 10
Not a follower
Lucy knew how to flaunt her
Poetic justice.
Art Prescription: Tis the season of expectations. By all means…please do…honor truly you. The gift of time.
8 1/2 x 11 watercolor and pen and ink

A flock of robins
Supervise evening shift
Owls begin to hoot.
Art Prescription: Love being at Mason Farm at sunset. The birds are foraging for their last snack and the night-time creatures begin to stir.
8 x 8 Sumi-Ink (My chop hand-carved in China, says, “Hope”

December’s neutrals
Birds perch caramel grasses
Parachute seed pods.
Art Prescription: A winter walk at Mason Farm.
Index card with colored pencil

Seconds of my life
Click by on the microwave
Quick grits are ready!
Art Prescription: And let’s remember each small thing. Lucky to have hot grits with butter, even if I did eat them standing up between patients. A bite here, ooh that’s hot, a bite there, more butter? What do elephants and grits have to do with one another? Hot grits…cute critter with flowers…TGIF y’all!
Index card with colored pencil
