Each day is a gift

To enjoy the simple life

Taste, smell, touch, see, hear.

Art Prescription: New Remembering Tree for UNC Hospital:

Salting the bridges

Frozen precipitation

The meadow shivers.

Art Prescription: watercolor

Build up to a day

Family gathers around

Grandmother’s China.

Art Prescription: lovely Christmas Day. Family here for a lasagna feast. I inherited my grandmother’s China. Now a little quiet time.

All is calm, quiet

Cold air settles in the pines

White snow gently falls.

Art Prescription: To all a goodnight.

Soft lamps in windows

The inside light of the home

Dark night, warm inside.

Art Prescription: quick watercolor sketch:

The stray/feral kittens are doing well. My neighbor’s daughters are home from collage for the holidays, so they are being highly “socialized.” My vet will take them and give them a good check-up and find them a forever home. Shout out to Park Vet!

Balance is the key

Stand on one leg, close your eyes

Now what do you see?

Art Prescription: Appropriate meditation on this winter solstice day. How do you balance life? The holidays get many of us off kilter with too many demands and expectations. Stay centered with good boundaries, don’t pick up anyone else’s baggage, know when to take a break to get quiet time.

Two different moods

One spring, light, other winter

Both speak to my soul.

Art Prescription: Color is amazing. Here I’ve painted two similar compositions, but with a completely different palette. Feel the mood change? I will let these dry and add detail.

Soft hands with a horse

Soft blue-grays, winter landscape

Soft mood, soft response.

Art Prescription: loose watercolor

Caught in metal cage

Meowing in the dark now

Last of the kittens.

Art Prescription: I caught the final kitten tonight! Reunited with it’s sibling, its resting comfortably.

I’ll get back to art at some point.