TRIBUTE TO SUMMER 

July 5, 2015 

This is a tribute to summer for DIGITAL WHISPER.

What a spectacular July 4th weekend we shared with our daughter and grandkids. The weather and the company were both ideal! These kinds of days are the best part of our summer memories...always. What could be better than spending time with dear family and friends?

This posting has art that's all about summer. Another piece for DIGITAL WHISPER, (whose theme for the week is summer,) is this piece of memorabilia for me...born in the New York City area, I remember some very hot days when the local Fire Department would open the fire hydrants and let the water spray out so we kids could play in it! It certainly relieved the extreme heat of a NYC summer day...and was sooo much fun!

 TAKE A WORD declared its theme to be windows. The piece I created continued the summer theme...

Finally, THE THREE MUSES had their collective heads in the sky...checking out the stars. I created a summer starry night with fireflies as well...love those bright nights and planetarium-like starry skies...magical!

I hope you're enjoying your days and nights wherever you are. Thanks for stopping by. See you next time...
Sending big hugs and good wishes,
abbyj  

FULL SWING SUMMER

CRITTERS & ART
June 23, 2011 

But first...

"adventurer at heart...

living out loud!"

My guide took this photo of me in tribal southern Ethiopia: my friend, Joanne, joked that if I entered the tribal, remote part of Africa, I'd been boiled alive...we're just acting out her thought! It was a fun and humorous time for all of us! This was taken in the village where my African families live...the tribe is the KARA tribe.

Welcome back, family and friends...I'm happy you stopped by to share my "vivere" for the week... Summer is finally in full swing here in Central New York and everything is very green. (We had two months of rain in April and May...is it any wonder?)  The flowers are blooming and the critters are very busy living their lives around us. My bird feeders are weigh stations for many different species of sky vagabonds......

Birds always personify "integrity" to me...that's what's written in Japanese...INTEGRITY! The cardinals are constant visitors to our weigh station...that flash of red is startlingly beautiful!

and  some of our trees provide enticing berry snacks for neighborhood squirrels!

In between reorganizing my art room/den this week, I did manage to answer a few art challenges...helps me to stretch my imagination a bit and as the years march on, it's good mental exercise! See what you think...

SUMMER was the theme for three of my favorite challenge groups, so I thought this piece would do nicely for all three: 4X4 FRIDAY, THEME THURSDAY,  INSPIRATION AVENUE;

THREE MUSES had me dreaming about Paris with their POSTMARK, PARIS challenge. I used a photo I took from a train in Paris as my inspiration... THE CHALLENGE BLOG also asked for some Travel or Journey inspired art...this works!

One of my favorite online art groups, PAPER TRADERS, has group members creating an ongoing Word Prompt Journal using words to live by (and interpret...)  Here's INTEGRITY...

and WONDER...

SUNDAY POSTCARD ART wanted to see some VINTAGE MEN...these have been workin' on the railroad!!

Thanks for spending a few minutes with me...please come back...I'll be looking for you!  :o) 

XOX, 

abbyj

 

TWO MORE...

THEMES GALORE! 
April 19, 2011

My next several weeks are going to be very busy so I probably won't have time to post any art...it's the old "LIFE" getting in the way! But I'll be having a wonderful, instructive time at an art workshop with DJ Pettitt...can't wait as I love her art. Check these sites and you'll see what I mean!

                                                                                  http://djpettitt.typepad.com/djpettitt/
                                                                                  http://www.djpettitt.blogspot.com/

Here are my last two pieces 'til soon...

For TAKE A WORD's challenge blog...it's all about TRAVEL!

For 4X4 FRIDAY, we were asked to THINK "Summer..." even though it's SPRING that's around the corner for us, here in Central New York. Summer????

 Thanks for checking in. I'll TRY to blog during the next 3 weeks... please DO check back after May 15th. I look forward to "seeing you" again.

xox, abbyj