FLOCK gift shop

As you drive around Austin searching for Christmas gifts, make sure you stop in FLOCK off south Lamar. There's a collection of wonderful handmade goods, like jewelry, candles, scarves ... and my paintings! They really look at home there.
Address: 2120 Oxford Ave Austin, TX 78704
[tip: you know BYRD's right nearish oltorf?  it's right behind their parking lot]

thankful

After an unforgivably brutal summer in central Texas, it felt like some sort of payback to bust out the folding tables and set up Thanksgiving dinner outside. With all of the usual side-dishes and the traditional (2nd annual) tangerine mimosas... the day could not have been better.

Done.

After years of fall homesickness, I finally declared that this is the year we visit Virginia during the most perfect time of year. Sometimes, you just have to do things instead of continuing to think about it. Through the magic of the universe, we timed it just perfect. The air was crisp but not too cool. The colors were dynamite!

The beginning...

This is the very first painting I did that was nature-related.  2003, I think. I still have the original somewhere - funny to look back on. I have been going through old files today and organizing....it's really only something you can do when you're in the mood. Can't force such tedious work as this.

New work, in progress

Frames of the plains

On the plains of Wyoming, these structures are striking and yet, somehow almost invisible. It was about half way into our trip that I felt idiotic for not stopping for pictures of them all.

 

That first one, FISH ON RANCH, was on a back road but can you just imagine picking out your land and going, "Yeah, right there." Too perfect.

Never ends

So many cute things on etsy.... so few places to put them. Bad hair day print by i love doodle.