Even bears get bored with digging for grubs or stripping blackberries off bushes. This September we learned an important lesson. Do NOT leave inflatables out where the bears can find them. We lost two rubber rafts and an inflatable lounger this summer. It was clear that an animal had bitten into them, but it wasn’t until we caught this […]
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Spring has officially sprung on the West Coast, and I’m starting to feel a sense of renewal and rejuvenation. The days are getting longer, the flowers are starting to bloom, and the air is filled with excitement and possibility. The arrival of sunshine and warmth is a welcome change, an invitation to embrace the lighter, brighter
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“I will wait.” (61) Painted March 2023. 12”x12”. Acrylic on Stretched Canvas. Price $144.00 Canadian Unframed I’ve been ruminating on the idea of patience lately. Entanglements have been slow to untangle. Expectations that seemed realistic, lie crumpled on the ground, trampled by missed deadlines. Problems that should have been resolved weeks ago, have remained stubbornly unresolved. I’m learning to
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One of my favourite things to do in the morning is sit at the breakfast table with a big cup of steaming coffee, plan out my day and do a scan of the Salish Sea to see if I can see any Orcas, Humpbacks or Sea Lions from our perch at the top of the
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Patience is my middle name. After twenty long months, we were able to move into the Art Studio part of our new house on Twin Eagles Bluff – finally! It’s 900 square feet of coziness looking out over the Salish Sea. It will be our new home while we finish off the main part of
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The inexorable march of a king tide this past Boxing Day is worth a blog entry. On normal tides there will always be at least ten or twenty feet of dry ground above the high water mark, before you hit the edge of the blackberry bushes, the scrub alder and the wild rose tangles. Over
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SOLD. “I have one thing to say.” Painted December 2022. 12”x12”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. I’ve been wanting to tackle a cow painting for a while and the opportunity came up the other day, so I grabbed it. I probably didn’t spend as much time observing cows as I should have growing up, considering that they
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Nothing works quite like hosting an enchanted Christmas forest walk for the neighbourhood to fast track into the festive season. Mitch with some help from neighbours, did a great job clearing new paths and getting everything set up. It’s amazing that an entire forest can be lit with only three plug-ins available. Without LED lights,
“Storms a brewin’.” Painted December 2022. 20”x30”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. A couple of months ago, I did a painting based on an overnight stay on Powell lake at a friend’s beautiful floating house across from Goat Island. There was something not sitting right about my previous painting of this range of mountains. The painting didn’t express either the
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SOLD. “You lookin’ at me?” Painted November 2022. 16”x12”. Acrylic on stretched Canvas. Growing up on a ranch you are aware that animals aren’t all fluffy pets and need to be treated with respect. Certain parts of our barnyard were particularly unnerving because of a couple of unholy roosters that got immense pleasure in terrorizing us children. They would
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