Good word for a Monday :-)

Put some energy into Monday with this bit of word art:

A word I don't hear very often but is really cute!

Isn't this a funny one?

Another paint daub critter:

Wacky or in a tizzy?

Black dog

a happy little guy.

This little fur ball makes me smile!

Tiny is fascinating.

The first canvas I ever stretched was six feet square. Over the years I have worked on quite a few paintings at that scale; it’s incredibly freeing - physical, full of action, accidents and discovery. I love it.

But on the other hand, there is the intimacy of small. Working in a controlled way, but not so much that there is no life left. I did some simple "drawings" on one-inch square pieces of card stock; here’s one:

So much fun watching my dog at play.

And another:

Not surprisingly, "dog-themed" :-)

About the size of a postage stamp - they are easily misplaced! You can probably guess how I know that.

It's still growing...

my dish garden, that is. I put it together a few months ago and the plants still appear to be pretty happy.

Dish garden.

Here's a close up.

I can almost hear a babbling brook...

I have some favorite words...

and this is one of them:

And also this one:

The appeal? Letter combinations, connotations, denotations perhaps the context in which I first heard the word.

With the wet...

come the flowers. A lot of rain the past few days. Hail yesterday morning - unusual.
Remy and I were on walkies and we spied a bit of color. This:

Time to investigate:

Remy really put his nose into it:

Okay, so he probably wasn't checking out the blossoms exactly :-)