Flowers everywhere

 

Nova Scotia Lupins (work in progress)

Acrylic on canvas

8 x 8 inches

Barbara Muir © 2011

(Flowers really are everywhere here.  Wild

roses and wild hydrangea bloom around the

school house and across the street.  Bright orange

day lilies flare

The other day we walked up the road from our little schoolhouse

 and Steven climbed down into the deep ditch to pick some lupins

for me.   Normally the lupins are finished at the end of June, so this

was a great treat to bring home a bunch.  I put them in a lovely blue

glass jar I bought from a woman who used to run a health food

 store in the house next to us on the highway.  And then of course

I started this painting.  It isn’t quite done, but I thought you might like

to see the painting in progress.  I started with a magenta ground

 because some of the lupins have a very bright pink look. 

We’re heading out in search of a sheep farm in a nearby town, that

 has a lovely shop in its farmhouse.  You can go out to the barn alone

and talk to the lambs, which we always do.  “Dogs are baaaaad, sheep

 are good” (Remember this from the movie Babe?”  Well

the sheep love that line, and can’t hear it enough times, cliché or no.

Have an exploring where you are day.