Technicolor Cat - July 23, 2009

"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

– Ovid

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Technicolor Cat

5" x 7" watercolor

Reba's Bike - July 22, 2009

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."

– Groucho Marx

My philosophy to a T.

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Reba's Bike

5" x 7" Watercolor

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We had our monthly girl's night out last night. We all met at my friend Reba's Lake Eufaula Bed & Breakfast. What a beautiful place! Reba has decorated it all herself and it is filled with wonderful antiques and a warmth like I have never seen. If you are ever planning a trip to Lake Eufaula, you really must stay there. I pulled a photo from her website and painted this little watercolor for her, as a hostess gift.

Fire Ant - July 21, 2009

"It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves."

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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"Fire Ant"

8" x 11" Linoleum Block Print

Four Oceans Press Exchange

Chainlink Vista - July 20, 2009

Iron rusts from disuse, water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

--Leonardo da Vinci

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Chainlink Vista

4" x 6" Watercolor

with Sharpie Outline

Ice Cream Cone - July 17, 2009

Inches make champions.

-- Vince Lombardi

What's the difference between success and failure? Ideal conditions? Half again as much effort? Twice the talent? Ten times "the breaks"? Or is it simply that some people have what it takes and some people don't?

Vince Lombardi, the football coach who brought the Green Bay Packers from fifteen losing seasons to successive world championships, thought success was a matter of inches. A bit more concentration, one extra push in practice, a consistent second effort for a tiny additional gain. He didn't ask his players to be something other than they were - he asked them to improve their best an inch at a time. He knew inches add up, in life as in sports.

Today, I will be aware that I am a champion in the making. I may not make a complete turnaround today, but I will make progress.

Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty

Oooooo, I like that a lot!

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Ice Cream Cone

2.5" x 3.5"

Watercolor & Ink

"I" for Alphabet ATC Exchange

Gravy Boat - July 16, 2009

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

– Grace Murray Hopper

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"Gravy Boat"

(surrounded by sausage links)

2.5" x 3.5" Watercolor & Ink

G - for Alphabet ATC Exchange

Curious Koala - July 15, 2009

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

--Dr. Wayne Dyer

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Curious Koala

5" x 7" Watercolor

Columbian Lady II - July 14, 2009

Sometimes, the way is not clear.

Our minds get clouded, confused. We aren't certain what our next step should be, what it will look like, what direction we are headed.

This is the time to stop, ask for guidance, and rest. That is the time to let go of fear. Wait. Feel the confusion and chaos, and then let it go. The path will show itself. The next step shall be revealed. We don't have to know now. We will know in time. Trust that. Let go and trust.

Today, I will wait if the way is not clear. I will trust that out of the chaos will come clarity.

--Melody Beattie

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Columbian Lady II

4" x 6" Postcard

Watercolor

Columbian Lady - July 13, 2009

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

– Aristotle

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"Columbian Lady"

5" x 7" Watercolor

on WC Greeting Card

Wildflowers - July 10, 2009

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

– e. e. cummings

This is my Mother's favorite quote. It's so true!

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Wildflowers

4" x 6" Watercolor