FRIDAY FLOWERS! :)

Happy Friday Everyone!

I am so excited to show you this week's Friday Flowers! Here in Portland, Oregon we have a reputation for our Roses. :)

P.Town is sometimes called "The City Of Roses." We have a gorgeous Rose Garden, which is what us Plebs call it but its official name is the "International Rose Test Garden" If you would like to read more about it here is a very informative LINK

A few weeks ago my Hubby and I took a trip to visit the Rose Garden and I took 500 photos in less than an hour. Here are the ones I love, I hope you enjoy them too!

I added this shot, not because it is overly stunning but that it has the Rose in every stage from bud all the way thru to a wilting flower. I love it :)

Even rain damaged these Roses look gorgeous!

I really hope you enjoyed this little tour of our wonderful Rose Garden here in P.Town. :) Come back next week for some of the other plants at the Rose Garden :)

Have a Lovely Weekend everyone, see you next week :)



Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

Making The Most Of The Rain! :)

Happy Tuesday Everyone! :)

It has been raining here, in Portland, so much that I have been trying to ignore it, it is too soon, GO AWAY!!!!!! :(

So, to cheer myself up I decided to Make the Most of it and take some fun pictures :)

I hope you Enjoy them :)

"Raindrops on Roses........." (now I am going to have to watch the Sound Of Music :)

I really love this one, I think because of the sense of intrigue :)

We are surrounded, literally every window and door, with Spiders and their webs, must have been a bumper year for them, I have walked into so many webs recently, yuck!  :(

Yep, that is a glimmer of Sunshine in between the torrential rain!

I love how in these shots the outside lighting makes beautiful shapes with reflective light bouncing off the raindrops on the Bamboo :)

I am really enjoying working with the Black and White photos right now. :)

I am going crazy trying to get everything co-ordinated for the upcoming shows but hopefully the stress and the expense will pay off.  Seriously, you would think I had never done a show before!

I hope your Week got off to a great start :)

And a little better then mine, back to trying to block out the sound of a chain saw right outside my office while our "DARLING" neighbours hack down yet another tree, AAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

FRIDAY FLOWERS! :)

Happy Friday Everyone! :)



This week has just flown by! I didn't get as much done as I planned to do but hopefully I will hit the painting with a vengeance later today. :)

But before that I wanted to share my Friday Flowers with you :)

I have pretty much run out of Flower pictures in my Garden, it has started raining here and everything is turning brown and not in a lovely Fall colour way :(

So, on my travels around the local neighbourhoods (just call me the Garden Stalker, get it (He! He!) I found some lovely Flowers that I do not get to grow in my Garden :)

So, this week's Friday Flowers are some of the pretty Sunflowers that I found in the "Hoods" :)


I hope you enjoy them too! :)

I love the colours in this one :)

And the way the Petals curl and wave :)

All the fun things that are happening in the centre :)

How some can be small :)

And some large :)

Such Happy Faces :)

I love this in B. & W. What do you think?

Oh that Sunflower is definitely waving at me :)

Some grow in different directions :)

Such powerful colour :)

Little Tutus :)

Looks like a Sunflower Coffee Morning get tog. :)

This center is so orderly, beautiful :)

Radiant :)

Is this Australian! (jk :)

I was really excited about this shot and the "Bokeh" on the left  :)

I love the hint of the distant fields still in late afternoon sunshine at the top of this shot :)

This is my Fav. I think because of the colours and the near perfection of the flower and the complete sturdiness and uplifted and uplifting Face :)

My Hubby and I were walking around a community garden and we were greeted by this adorable Cat :)

Who processed to escort us around, maybe it was a "Watch Cat" making sure we didn't steal any of the AMAZING produce :)

Those marking are just gorgeous :)

I think at one point it got bored with us :)

Giving my Hubby the evil eye :)

And just look at those Whiskers, beautiful :)

I hope you enjoyed Friday Flowers!



Have a Lovely Weekend everyone, see you next week :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.