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Town Hall

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Town Hall is an oil on 14″x11″ canvas panel.

This is the reference photo and the beginning of the painting.

And the progression….

And the completed painting.  It is SOLD!

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Plum Jelly

Posted in Recipes, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , on September 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

After a delightfully restful weekend at the cabin, I came home with loads of plums, all very ripe and ready for jelly.

I love making jelly as it reminds me of both of my grandmothers.  Granny had some of the best plum trees in her yard and so did Big Mama.  They both made jelly and I learned much from them both.

You can see more about the process here from a post I made a few years ago during my jelly making.  Last night I made 15 jars and have enough juice squeezed to make about that much more!

I love the equipment you use to make jelly especially the little funnel cup in the lower right of the photo that belonged to Big Mama.  🙂

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A Visit to “Chickens in the Road”

Posted in Small Town Life, Travel, tagged , , , , , on August 28, 2011| 5 Comments »

Several years ago I heard a story on NPR about a lady who lived on a little farm in West Virginia and blogged about her life there.  At the time I was at my cabin out in the middle of nowhere with no computer service but as soon as I got back to town I checked it out online and have been following the adventures of Suzanne McMinn and www.chickensintheroad.com ever since. 

Almost every day since I heard of her I have allowed her to begin my day with a cute story about her animals, her cheesemaking or some adventure she had gotten herself into.  I love it. 

Never did I think that I would actually end up visiting Stringtown Rising Farm and see the organized chaos for myself.  But here I am, taking my own photos of Mr. Hyde.  And isn’t he a handsome fellow?

But the biggest problem so far is that I fallen in love with the two baby goats.  Have you ever seen anything so cute???  They are sold already or I am afraid that I would have had to have taken one home with me.  I’m not sure what Lincoln and Jed would have thought about it but I’m sure we could have figured something out.

The first thing we did when we got here was to make mozzarella cheese!  I love cheese and she is teaching me to make it.  We put our fresh mozzarella on the pizza Suzanne made for us with fresh made crust, herbs and tomatoes right out of the garden.  It was terrific!

And I even think the animals were thrilled that she made fresh pizza because as Suzanne picked the tomatoes for our dinner, she tossed a few over the fence for them!

Tomorrow I start painting the wall downstairs so I’ll try to take photos to show our progress.

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Oxbow Sunflowers

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Oxbow Sunflowers is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x30″.   (SOLD) It was painted for the show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council that opens this Thursday called “Farms and Barns of Warren County” to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the county.  It will be available at the show this week.

This is painted combining two photos taken by the owner of this Rockland farm showing the brilliant large sunflowers that took over the landscape there this summer.

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Only in Virginia

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged , , , on July 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday in downtown Front Royal was the Fireman’s Parade.  Once a year they have a parade and roll out all of their equipment and all their beauty queens. 

I have lived in several states and Virginia is the only one where I have experienced this phenomenon.  The kids loved it, lining the streets, waiting for candy to be thrown their way.  I love small town life!!!

 

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A Shelter Window Mural

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago Michele Sommers, Sommers End Originals, and I painted this mural at our the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter here in Warren County.  It turned out great and adds a lot of life to a dull wall there.

We invite other artists to come out and add other animals to the window.  Plus we will be painting a tree on the small wall leading to the cat area and will add cats to that mural.  If you would like to help just get in touch with us.

You can see more photos of the mural and Michele and I at work here.

 

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Harp for Sale

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged , , on June 20, 2011| 1 Comment »

Something you don’t see everyday…..

 

 

 

 

 

…a girl rolling a harp down the street.

 

 

 

 

 

 After chatting with her, I found that she was on her way to the gazebo as part of the Celtic Festival on Saturday.  She was selling this harp because she had just gotten a new one.  Imagine!

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“New” Artists at The Southerlands

Posted in Art Class, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I spent a very pleasant hour painting with these beautiful “new ” artists at The Southerlands  And didn’t they do a fantastic job on their paintings? 

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Young Artist Honored

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , on June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The young artists, 4th graders, from all five elementary schools who participated in the 175th Anniversary Art project were honored last night at an Opening Reception of their work at the Community Center.  Their art will hang there until the end of July when it will return their schools as a permanent display.

Many students and parents turned out to see the five collages.  And so did the TV station.  Three of the students were interviewed for a story that ran last night on TV-3. 

Good job girls!  (See there video here.)

Make time to stop by and see the beautiful art that these children created to honor the 175th Anniversary of Warren County!

(You can read more about the project on past posts in March and April of this blog and by starting here.)

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Beautiful Day; Beautiful Painter!

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , on May 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This is my new buddy – Allie.  Her mom is JoJo who has joined the Delilah’s co-op and has beautiful fine silver jewelry.  Stop in and see it.  Allie helped us Saturday at the festival.  She is a great saleslady.  And didn’t she look cute with her painted face???!!

She is also a great painter.  She helped me with the Coneflower painting that I was working on while her mom looked on.  Thanks Allie.

And thanks everyone who stopped in to see me Saturday.   

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