Doors are so important!
Just a short train ride from the center of Paris is the home of artist, Claude Monet. On a beautiful day, Elizabeth and I went to Giverny in Normandy France to visit these gardens which inspired Monet. Indeed they are inspirational and every way you turn, there is an exceptional photograph to be taken.
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Research Update
I have been traveling a little bit for my research and the home city of this bridge has played an important part of the work I am doing. Do you know this bridge? Do you know the city? I traveled here with my daughter and one night we took a boat ride down this river [...]
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With a lot of outside help, I have finally been able to have set up an e-mail subscription form, so you can follow my posts a little easier. If you look in the left hand column, you will find a box where you can add your email address to have these posts delivered to you! [...]
Happy 2010!
I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful beginning to 2010 and enjoyed a Very Happy Holiday Season! New beginnings are always wonderful and full of hope. I am looking forward to great things happening this year and I wish the same for all of you. Since we celebrate Christmas in my family I was graced [...]
“La Bella Principessa” and Me
more than meets the eye?
As I look at this work in progress, I wonder what I am leaving behind I do not know about. What am I sharing with the future? Am I giving unintentional information? I am thinking about this because of the recent uncovering of what appears to be a previously unacknowledged Leonardo [...]
Environmental Responsibility in the Painting Studio
You might wonder how I use my inspiration cache. Mainly, it is used for my own purposes and by keeping these elements (and they are not organized all that well) I seem to be inspired with more ideas than I can express. My journaling clearly helps me to clear out blocks in my own head [...]
Welcome to My New Blog Home!
I spent an entire afternoon here!
Come into my back yard today. I bet you didn’t think a new blog format would be a part of my changes, but I wanted to provide a place where I could share information and you could find it easier. With this blog, I can create other pages where like profiles [...]
New Beginnings
Hello Everyone!
I appreciate you giving me some time here to evaluate and get some thinking time about what I need and want to do. I have been working on quite a few projects…some in their infancy others slowly coming to their fullness. I will be letting you in on what is happening [...]