The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: June 2021

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Strong Bond

"It's stronger than most marriages today, that union between man and dog. Trust and honor, and at least one partner that can keep your secrets, all bonded by unconditional love."

Vendor Night Gifts

On my way home from Vendor Night last evening... beauty by the river... beauty in the sky... and of course, a deer.

Monday, June 28, 2021

Birthdays

Jim Fish

Beulah Kopka

There is Birthday Joy in Heaven today! Happy Birthday FISHO and AUNT BEULAH!!

Sunday, June 27, 2021

The flower beds were full of weeds and it is an ongoing job digging them out. Mr. Magic has been weeding this one for weeks and is finally coming to the end this morning. He planted 50+ tulip bulbs in here last week. This flower bed and his tomato garden have kept him pretty busy - hard work and too hot!!

Saturday, June 26, 2021

Bright Pink Hydrangea

Full Moon with Clouds

We had some clouds last night.

Tomato Garden

Mr. Magic's Tomato Garden.

Just Chillin'

Friday, June 25, 2021

Full Moon Cuteness

I've posted this before, but so cute and appropriate right now.

Mimosa Flower

Closeup of a Mimosa flower.

Mimosa Tree

My next door neighbor's Mimosa Tree. SO pretty.

Vistar

At my eye doctor appointment for yearly exam this morning. This beautiful large pot of flowers is out front. Nice to see something pretty before getting your eyes dilated. 😂

Strawberry Full Moon

June 2021 - Strawberry Full Moon

1:15 a.m. - It is so bright and beautiful. I wish it could be full all the time. It is clear and 59* - a perfect night.

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Windchime #6

Windchime #6
Leaves. This chime was a Christmas gift from Casey and Amanda many years ago. The leaves are ceramic which makes a pretty sound, but it could break in heavy wind. So, it hangs on a moveable stand that I can move close to the porch wall when it is real windy.

LOVE!!

Grotto Flowers

Two of the balloon flowers opened in my little Blessed Mother grotto.

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Full Moon

1:00 a.m. Outside my bedroom window. The full strawberry moon is Thursday, but it sure looked full, bright, and beautiful last night.

A Morning Visit

She stopped to nibble a bit in the back yard this morning.

Photo From a Friend

My sweet friend, Audrey Gallagher Fish Pfeifer loves deer. This one was posing in a field on the way into town. Just had to stop and get a photo for you, Audrey!

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My dear friend Tricia Scott, who recently moved to Tennessee, posted this on my Facebook timeline this week. SO thoughtful. It is a great photo!! Thank you, Tricia. 💓

Artist Trading Cards

The May-June theme for our ATC group was ARCHITECTURE. I chose to make Church Steeple collages to show just a few examples of the diversity from simple to elaborate construction. These Art Cards are en route across the globe.

"Mirror Mirror"

“Mirror Mirror” - Painting by Rebecca Suzanne Haines. It is sold, but I had to share. It’s stunning!

Monday, June 21, 2021

Just Because.

Sunday, June 20, 2021

Summer Solstice

HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!!

It's officially summer here in the Northern Hemisphere! Today is the June solstice, the astronomical start of summer and the longest day of the year.

Jake and Molly

Molly and Jake spent some time together yesterday while Donna and I visited. I think Jake checked out every inch of Molly. 😁

I enjoyed our talk, Donna. 💓

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Hungry Mr. Cardinal

This guy is at the window right now filling up on the seeds I just put in the feeder.

A Memory

Audrey Gallagher Fish Pfeifer
June 19, 2014

Throwback Thursday ~ I guess this was how we beat the heat back in the day. There I am with Tommy again. No idea who the little cutie is in the small wash tub. Tommy's sister, maybe?

A fun memory that showed up on my Facebook timeline this morning.

Beautiful Deer

Jake's ear down in the corner. He watches quietly whenever I stop to photograph deer.

Two young bucks stopped eating the leaves while I took their picture.

We went out to pick up Moe’s for dinner close to 8:00 last evening. Good timing. There were deer everywhere along the lane coming home. They were SO calm and seemed to listen to me talking to them.

Friday Evening on the Back Porch

Relaxed on the back porch deck after weeding this evening. I love it out there.

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.