HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

QUEEN ANN'S LACE STANDING IN FOR FIREWORKS!

Hope this is your best year yet starting at midnight!

It's Started again!

Ice Fishing on Lake St. Clair

Happy New Year!!!

We are leaving today to drive all day to upstate NY to visit my daughters and my new Grandson!! Will probably be incommunicado for a while!

Cold Feet

My feet get cold just thinking about standing in ice water!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dusk at the Cranbrook Art Museum

Dusk at the Cranbrook Art Museum. (I'm going to be traveling.)

At the Artist's Salon at Erica's

I went to my first artist's salon ever at the home of Erica Chappuis. There was dancing, artwork, photography, poetry and stories. And great food. An amazing and creative time was had by all. This is Norma belly dancing.

Pier Park in December

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I am sorry I have been unable to blog lately. Here's what the swimming Beach at Pier Park looks like today.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Detail from a Painting by Erica Chappuis

I had the great good fortune to be invited to the home of the Detroit artist Erica Chappuis recently. When I drove up her street, I could immediately tell which house was hers by all the wonderful artistic "installations" in the yard. She invited me in and gave me blueberry tea and we had a wonderful long conversation, and then she showed me around her yard, her house and finally her studio. She showed me how to use molding compound to make relief in a painting, and photographed that and hope to present it as a tutorial in a future post.

Erica Chappuis

This is a detail from one of Erica Chappuis's paintings. I am hoping to do a story on my visit to her house sometime in the next few days. SOON! Sorry I am so far behind!

I love the incredible detail here.

In the Yard of Detroit Artist Erica Chappuis

I hope to do a story soon about my visit to the home of Detroit artist Erica Chappuis. I took this picture of one of her paintings which is displayed in her yard. Story to follow soon.

I am very sorry I am running behind at this point, I hope to catch up soon!