Owl and Cat

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - This owl is delivering a message. What he might not know is that cats are quick and pretty good at managing mischief. He could end up with empty talons and a bent beak.

Chickadee and Still Life

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - This little fella dropped into my still life and I decided to leave him there. Hey... what could go wrong.

Building Across the Lane

 

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board

Juno and Maddy

 

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board

Driftwood on the Beach

 8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board

Aruba

 

24 x 24 inches - oil on hardboard

Norwood

 

12 x 16 inches - oil on canvas board

Cooks

 

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board

Maya

 

6 x 8 inches - oil on canvas board

Bluebird

 

6 x 6 inches - oil on hardboard

Somewhere on the Coast

 

16 x 20 inches - oil on canvas board

After the Storm

 

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board - After a storm you can almost see the fields growing.

Pile of Cows

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - We were on a garden tour and came across these cows at one of the places we visited.

Seaside Grasses

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board  - There is sort of a path through the grass but keep an eye on the tides or your feet might get wet.
 

Beaver by the Lake

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board   -   A sudden slap of a tail in the water is sometimes all the warning you get that a beaver is nearby.
 

Two Trees in the Field

 

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board

Whales by the Cliff

 

12 x 9 inches - oil on canvas board   -  It is fun to see such graceful animals.

Pile of Rocks

 12 x 9 inches - oil on canvas board - These rocks appear to be stacked broken and worn down by many years of wind and sea.

Fishing Shacks

 

12 x 9 inches - oil on canvas board - Somewhere on the coast of Nova Scotia, the fishermen have these sheds for storing their stuff and the feral cats find their nets a cosy place to snooze.

Up the Beach

 9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - It is interesting sometimes to look away from the water.

Farm at Sunrise

 

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board -

Red Cliff

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board -
 

Cora's Teapot

 

11 x 14 inches - Oil on hardboard.  Every week after church, Cora poured herself a cup of tea. She shared her tea with her African violets, and I kept her pot to remember her by.

Tail of a Whale

 

12 x 16 inches - oil on canvas board - My title for this one seems to me to be a tongue twister.

Bromeliad

 

12 x 26 inches - oil on canvas board - In the tropics, bromeliads often can be found growing in trees.

White Orchid From Above

 

8 x 8 inches - oil on canvas board -

Path to the Beach

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board -

Clouds Over Hawaii

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board

By the Sand Dune

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board -

Red Rocks

 

12 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board -

Swamp Thing

 

12 x 16 inches - oil on canvas board - Here is a wetland near Cordova.

Cliff by the Sea

12 x 16 inches - oil on canvas board -
 

Small Town

 

12 x 16 inches - oil on canvas board - Here is a scene from a downtown of a small town in southern Ontario Canada.

Frankie

 

12 x 9 inches - oil on linen - This is Frankie (short for Frankenfurter). He is a very contented, well behaved cat. He almost always holds his tail straight up in the air and he has a little white tip on it. We almost called him Q Tip.

Zipper

 

 10 x 8 inches - oil on canvas board - This is Zipper. He liked people, especially those who were not particularly fond of cats. He was a fun loving cat, but he is gone now and we miss him.

 

Five Crows

 

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - This looks like trouble.

Squirrel Tracks

 

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - Sometimes the snow is so deep that the squirrels have to plow their way to their favorite tree.

Rock Pond

 9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board - On the coast of Nova Scotia (I can't remember where) small ponds form where there is a rock berm by the sea.

Yellow

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board - I waited until there were two flowers open because one just looked too pathetic.
 

Little Island

 

9 x 12 inches - oil on canvas board -

Sandy Beach

 

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board -

End of Day Over Blomiden

 

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board - From a hill overlooking Blomiden Nova Scotia.

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

 

8 x 10 inches - oil on canvas board - There are so many chickens running around Hawaii that you wouldn't think anyone would go hungry. It was explained to me that how you cook one of these chickens is you get a big pot of water and put the chicken in with a rock. You boil for a day and a half and then throw away the chicken and eat the rock.

Night Stand

 

8 x 8 inches - oil on hardboard -

Snowmagedon

 8 x 8 inches - oil on hardboard - I didn't plan on painting this today but I got interrupted like everything else.

Dark Red

 

16 x 20 inches - oil on stretched linen - These help to cheer us up during the long winter months.

Red Hibiscus

 

10 x 10 inches - oil on cradled linen

Cottonwoods at Rondeau

 

5 x 7 inches - oil on hardboard - Yesterday's painting was a wiper. Hopefully, I will get better as time goes on.

Orchids by the Window

 

6 x 6 inches - oil on hardboard - Our orchids bloom reliably in this south window that gets shade in the summer but sun in winter.

Before the Rain

 

8 x 8 inches - oil on hardboard - If you don't pick your peonies before a heavy rain, you might just find them on the ground.