Sunset over the Rocky Mountains

This picture was taken at the end of a Jeep tour at the end of the day at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. My sister and I enjoy our summer trips together.

Grandmother's Silver

This is a picture of the serving pieces of my grandmother's silver that I'm going to share with family members at the reunion this summer. The pattern is called "Vintage"; it was a new pattern in 1904.

Weeding my Herb Garden

It is such a neat experience to weed an herb garden. The sage was taking over my path so I had to trim it back. The aroma was wonderful. I had to pull up the cilantro because it was going to seed and had fallen onto the path. How wonderful to smell it with each handful I pulled. I just stacked it where it had been growing so it could dry, and then I will save the seed later. It will reseed itself as it is drying, and I will have another batch before frost.

CAL Community Exhibits Program

This first week of July, the Columbia Art League Community Exhibits change from one business to another. I will be moving my pictures from the Columbia Tribune to the University of Missouri Hospital second floor. My display will be all new pictures. It will feature my painted water lilies.By using several layers as I work, I paint and sketch these lilies on the computer with the use of an electronic pen (or paintbrush) on a Wacom tablet. On this picture I used several colored pencils to accentuate the curling of the leaves and the many petals of the flowers.