2021 in Fruit and Veggies

 

The reason we're seeing flowers here is that they're Jerusalem Artichokes and under these flowers are bulbs that can be cleaned, rinsed and can be used much like potatoes. We haven't tried tasting them yet but it's nice to know that they're here for the digging

2021 in Flowers

 

Grocery Still Life, I ate my Model!

 

I haven't done anything like this in a long time so I thought I'd give it a try. 

I think I've got a pretty good start on it so far. What do you think?

I didn't care much for the blue background and needed more contrast so I went to shades of yellow.

It amused me to paint a  painting in a painting just to push the composition a bit further. I was just lucky that both of my orange daisies were blooming so that i had something to work with.

Good Afternoon Friends,

    I've been pouring my heart out here for nearly 10 years and it's really embarrassing how few people are following me here.

As I mentioned yesterday we got a lot of free raspberry bushes but as we're both elderly an arthritic we can't work at it for very long at a time it's going to take a long time.

Well, it's that time again so back out to the garden.

Wish us Luck,

Julia

A Bit of Garden News

I love unexpected surprises in the garden.  Just when I thought the veggies were about done I found a few salad makings.

The other interesting thing that happened is that workmen were doing some demolition on our block and cutting down an old clump of lilac bushes. I asked them what they were going to do with them and was told they were going to haul them to the dump.

That seemed like such a waste that I rolled over there and asked if I could have some of them and got the bosses permission if we would dig them up and lucky for me, my husband was willing to do it.

We have until tomorrow to rescue as many as we can.

It's been a good day,

Julia

Pillow from Painting to Product

Somewhere in the product design process image was stretched to

large and resulted on a blurry image so I'm on my way back to my zazzle  store to redesign it.

you can find the results at

julia_art