Lovely Easter to you!

wishing you a lovely Easter Sunday and beyond

some of our first wildflowers

Pasque

so beautiful

they had me on my knees ;-)

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AC: birds

spring is such a wonderful time to watch birds

to see them collecting grass

lichens

spiderwebs 

to make nests

enchanted by their songs and calls

we get to wonder about their new born

hey, that is not a bird ;-)

I made a little book for spring birds

and 

their eggs

:

new life

Thank you Eric for hosting our AC
with the theme:
birds

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Paint Pary Friday: Spring Eggs

spring begins slowly here

here in the NW corner of Montana

yet

I can tell birds

are building nests

they have me thinking of eggs

which inspired this painting

Wishing you all a lovely Easter weekend

and

spring

visit PPF

to enjoy other peoples art

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DC: Nest

 she formed her nest of feathers

soft for the newborns arrival

with care

she touched each one

offering love to last their whole life long

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two paintings were inspired

this nest is made of forget-me-not flowers

 

this weekends Drawing Challenge

was offered by: Ariane

her propmt: nest

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I enjoyed considering nests this week:

our skull is a nest for our brain

body a basket/nest for our soul and spirit

earth nest for all life on planet

I thought of homes

or feeling at home

a place to give birth

to nurture new life

caring for life in a nest

these thoughts hold my heart like a nest holds eggs

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thank you for being our wonderful host Ariane!

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D.C.: Order and Chaos

nest: a sacred vessel

eggs: the perfect order for the promise of life

wee ones are born

then chaos begins 

big smile

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this week i have been working on two paintings with owls

in them

THEN i had an amazing encounter with THREE

Great Gray owls

a mother and two fledglings

it was at dusk, when they come out to hunt

so the photo is grainy:

Barbara Bee offered the prompt:

Order and Chaos

some how i feel that all life is contained in this theme

the word 'trust' comes to mind

sometimes we can not see where all the tiny details are heading
where they all end up
perhaps chaos leads to order
or at least it can
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thank you Barbara 

for inspiring an interesting contemplation

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Also:

a branch broke in a tree this week

it seemed like an arm offering this nest so that i could see it
previously it was hidden to my sight

such amazing 'order' in the way it is made!

grass

moss

lichen

mud

nicely glued to the branch

a sacred vessel 

for the eggs and babies it held

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DC: Gossamer

in her dreams

the veil was open

she spoke with angels 

as the nights went on

her days became ethereal

and even her skin

radiated like gossamer silk

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Thank you for joining in for our Drawing Challenge this week. 

participants will be sharing on their blogs

something inspired by the word:

gossamer

please visit:

Leena

Kerstin 

Susan

Roberto

Norma

Tania
Arija
Ariane
 

My friend Annie found a hummingbird nest in her tree!

mamma hummer made the nest of lichen and gossamer spider webs

it is SO tiny

and look, two eggs

i read that they are made with gossamer spider webs
so that the web can stretch larger as the babies grow

now that is some smart engineering!
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I hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend
perhaps sprinkled with gossamer dreams
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Lady of the Tree

said the lady of the tree

to the bird that flew to she

I will be your home

standing strong within the ground

yet pliable with wind and sound

I will hold your nest

nurture to my best

please sing for me

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walking in the woods

mamma duck made a mad dash away

from me and the base of a tree

look at what I found:

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Enjoy sketches by lovely artists

visit Sophia's: Sunday Sketches

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