STILL IN SAN DIEGO

For Watery Wednesday
For Midweek Blues

Still in San Diego, see last post about Red Roof,

we walked back from taking some pics of blooming cherry trees, 

close to the water features in Balboa Park. 

Like there is a "play on words," me thinks this is also "a play on images"!

The breeze has blown the white petals of the cherry trees reflected here, 
into the water!


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RED ROOF

For Ruby Tuesday2
Our World

We don't have to drive far to go to San Diego, to relax an afternoon 

and go the Balboa Park, Old Town, or Seashore Village. 

The building styles have a strong Spanish and Mexican influence. 

And if I want to I can walk into Tijuana (TJ) on Mexican ground.

Whenever we go, I pack a small watercolor sketchbook, 3 brushes 
and a small palette in my purse. With a cup of coffee I did this one.
You might know artists are not too organized - I can't find the pic, 
so I'm posting my watercolor:):)


Never quite had the courage to go further with the red on the roof. 

You probably can imagine red watercolor would be quite hard to erase, 

and the paper might get damaged.

So I had this idea to do the pic of my watercolor in photo shop and try it out here. 

Is it a go, or not?

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A KEEPER

 For Watery Wednesday
For Sky Watch   For Weekend Reflections   For Scenic Sunday  For MellowYellow Monday

For Midweek Blues  For Alphabe - K

Yesterday  the calender was marked as the 40th anniversary.

Forty years  ago we started in Berlin, our neighbor country.

Now we live across the ocean in subtropical California.

Many moons and even more sunsets have passed

most of them in fair weather

we tossed it to the wind that "everyone" we knew (except for one adult) 
said 40 years ago

we didn't fit, and it wouldn't last!*


nevertheless, we fulfilled many of our big dreams 
and even more of the little ones,

and our boat* proved to be a keeper!

I couldn't ask for anything more.


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* reference to marriage

* the little rowboat Titanic

EVERY DAYS' JOYS

For Scenic Sunday    For Mellow Yellow Monday

For RubyTuesday2

For Our World

For Midweek Blues
For ABC Wednesday - Basket
For Alphabe - J -

 Even in Californian "winter" this one is budding with expectation 

just started opening up by my window. Any flower gives me JOY.

Am kind of a basket freak
Never can have enough of the texture, these colors 

and patterns of woven baskets 

I found at the Farmers Market.

Just looking at all the details of this tree trunk, gives me JOY, 

because I can see another painting coming...probably in pastel.

We saw a row of these, walking in Beijing.


Hope there are things that give you JOY...





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WINTER FUN

For Mellow Yellow Monday   For Ruby Tuesday2   For Our World    For Midweek Blues

For ABC -  Anton (Pieck)
For Alphabe - Ice

For Sky Watch Friday

For Weekend Reflections

This I titled Winter Fun, painted by Anton Pieck, a Dutch painter born in the early 1900. 
One could compare him to the Dutch Norman Rockwell.

When I was a little girl I actually had the old-fashioned ice skates, 

like you see in this painting,  where the wood ends with a curl by the toe. 

Never was good on the ICE, so I never bought the "new" ones. 

Also because I hated the cold! And still do.

The one in the yellow tux with the high hat, 

looks dramatic, don't you think?

The Dutch flag are horizontal  red-white-blue stripes, 

so I'm claiming that one for Ruby Tuesday
The blues and greens are more obvious. 

Meanwhile in California it's looking like this, probably more snow  

on the mountains

as well as on the meadows, 

because this was taken in summer time

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