Garden Gold ...

 Autumn

carries

more gold

in its pocket

than

all

the other

seasons

~Jim Bishop~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent heavy winds have shook most of the leaves free

leaving

 Garden Gold on my front yard ♥

 

The Coloring Studio ...

~The Coloring Studio~

"Soulful Whispers"

deb dunn

 

***

I am beyond thrilled and honored

 to be the

Cover Artist for the Premiere Issue of The Coloring Studio

which will be available December 1st 2015. 

 

The Coloring Studio features 60 illustrations, expert tips, special sections and lots of bonus content ... all just waiting for your artistic touches to make it uniquely yours ♥

Available just in time for Christmas ~ what a perfect gift it would make with a package of beautiful colored pencils and a pretty little sharpener.

 

As with all Stampington publications, you know the quality and content will be exquisite and unmatched.  I can't wait to see it in person and start coloring!!

 

Thank you so very much to Jana Holstein, Managing Editor, The Coloring Studio & Stampington for making dreams come true.

 

live a colorful life

♥

deb

xo

along country roads

It is a delightful pastime

to sit in the pleasant sunshine of Autumn,

and gazing

from this little spot

of free Earth

over such a landscape,

let the imagination luxuriate

amid the thrilling

association

of the scene!

~H.T. Tuckerman~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Along country roads

♥

Holiday Hare ...

*Holiday Hare*

Available in my Etsy shop

(link in sidebar)

♥

 

I know it's only October :-)

And we don't have any snow ... (yet)

 

I didn't even anticipate painting a snowy scene when I started this morning.

 

Originally, my plan was a garden hare with his nose pointing upward,

a Sparrow resting on the tip of his fluffy nose.

 

But as I began to draw, the wind was blowing outside, it became very dark and rain drops began to hit my Sparrow Studio window. I turned on the twinkle lights and all of a sudden, looking down at my watercolour paper,  I envisioned Hare wearing a lovely plaid scarf, sitting on a bed of freshly fallen snow, with  more flakes falling from above, a star filled sky, and a skinny, lanky, tree.  You know ... the one that always gets left behind on the Christmas tree lots (so of course ... the very one I fall in love with) :-) Topped with a golden star just perfect for wishing upon ♥

***

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor

~John O'Donohue~

Some older photo of our Garden bunnies ...

With such beauty in my own little garden ...

how could I not paint one in snow ♥

***

We do not need to go out and find love;

rather, we need to be still

and let love discover us

~John O'Donohue~

Savouring the beauty ...

Some of the last flowers ...

still looking beautiful

I am scattering seeds as I walk past the cosmos

that have bloomed in huge clusters all through the Summer and into Autumn

and given us lovely little posies for our table

a leaf dances in the air  by my shoulder and lands softly

walking through my garden

taking the time to savour the beauty ...

every little bit of it ♥

Have a wonderful Saturday

♥

Home is where the Hive is ...

In awe

at the size

texture

colour

pattern and detail of this magnificent hive ♥

"A work of arte;

and yet

no arte of man,

can work,

this work,

these little creatures can"

~Geoffrey Whitney~

1586

 

Happy Thanksgiving ...

For each new morning

with its light

For rest and shelter of the night

For health and  food

For love and friends

For everything

Thy Goodness sends

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes

♥

Thankful Living: Autumnal Blessings

The high winds have blown most of the Honeysuckle leaves from the vine ...

they have been dancing & twirling about in our garden for days :-)

I've been gathering them up and pressing them between pages of books ~ getting them ready to sit under  our Thanksgiving plates next weekend ♥

October

is the fallen leaf,

but it is also

a wider horizon

more clearly seen.

It is the distant hills

once more in sight,

and the enduring constellations

above them

once again

~Hal Borland~

♥

Welcome October