The gate's open for Christmas company

Waiting for company, watercolor card

Christmastime...more than any other time of anticipation of families and loved ones gathering, or yearning for gathering, or missing gathering...especially as the years go by and families spread out. Such memories of not being able to wait until children come home, or parents or loved ones arrive. Your heart jumps, or breaks, or cries, and sometimes all at the same time.

And where is your cabin this Christmas?

Watercolor card

A cabin,
Snow
Mountains
Warm fire
Woodsmoke
Books,
Art
Wine
Quiet
Solitude
Special someone
Christmastime

Chrisweather

Watercolor card

We all have stereotypical images or memories of weather around Christmas time, perhaps being snowed in at a cabin, warm fire, good books. Peace on earth.

Chjristmas is coming

Christmas is coming, watercolor card

December arrives; solstice nears

"December Solstice"--11 by 14 watercolor, 300 # d-Arches

No snow yet, and it's probably a few weeks away in Oklahoma, but today's cold front makes me think  about that time of year. Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year nears and the landscape turns bleak, bare tree limbs. and vanishing color. Snow will help break the monotony and bring pristine contrast--at first at least, before traffic turns it dirty and weeks and months of it grow old.
Snow also stimulates and inspires black and white photography for contrast and patterns, and especially watercolor, where the white of the paper dominates. Hence this painting, "December Solstice."
--Framed, $300 plus shipping