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I am an artist and my goal with this project is to become a keener observer of life and things around me. I also want to become a better photographer.
#1 365/365
22 streak
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Day 245
Fall colours
Some things I picked in the yard today while planting garlic and fall rye. #fall #afternoon #saturday #leaves #red #colours #cranberries...
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Day 244
Signs of Fall
Bergenia - otherwise known as elephant ears - leaves turning - the partly turn red for the fall and winter and then green up again in th...
#243
Day 243
Cork floor
Gradients of tone in our cork floor. We are busy putting our house back together after having the basement floor dug up and so I'm not very...
#242
Day 242
Drawing
This is a reductive drawing. You lay the charcoal down and then draw with an eraser. A good value exercise. #afternoon #wednesday #black #char...
#241
Day 241
Ice plant
Ice plant flowering in raised bed. #afternoon #green #tuesday #flower #pink #september #ice-plant
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Day 240
Intensity study
A study I did in varying the intensity of a colour. Here it is the colour green. As it got darker (red added to green), it came out a...
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Day 239
Eastern slopes
Eastern slopes of the Rockies taken from the Leighton Centre near Millerville Alberta #morning #sunday #clouds #blue-sky #september #ro...
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Day 238
Virginia Creeper
Our neighbour's creeper has good colour this fall. #fall #afternoon #saturday #leaves #green #red #fence #september #virginia-creeper
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Day 237
Burrowing Owl
This owl is endangered in Alberta due to agriculture and fragmentation of remaining native grasslands. One of my favourite birds. #morni...
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Day 236
Our basement floor
We are replacing our sewer line and the line draining our kitchen sink. This is the first part of the digging in our basement - mor...
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Day 235
House Wren
This little guy was singing and flitting around our yard. I was quite happy to get a picture as it doesn't sit still for long. #morning #we...
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Day 234
After a bath
These house sparrows just had a bath and are perched in their favourite spot to catch the sun. Sometimes there can be up to twenty of the...
#233
Day 233
Robin
We have lots of robins and other birds flying through right now. #leaves #evening #monday #robin #september #theme-birds
#232
Day 232
Squirrel
Eastern grey squirrel with a very bushy tail. #afternoon #sunday #bricks #gravel #squirrel #september
#231
Day 231
Self portrait
A semi-abstract self portrait. #afternoon #saturday #painting #self-portrait #september #theme-selfie
#230
Day 230
Shadow
Shadow of me in against our car door. #friday #afternoon #shadow #silver #september #theme-selfie #car-door
#229
Day 229
Sunset over the mountains
This is taken from the Cochrane AB hill. The mountains look quite small here but at other times they look quite big. #thursd...
#228
Day 228
Reflection
I'm standing on the front porch and this is the reflection in the kitchen window. #afternoon #wednesday #reflection #bird-feeder #plants #s...
#227
Day 227
Selfie
Picture in the bathroom mirror #afternoon #camera #tuesday #september #theme-selfie
#226
Day 226
Owl
A recent painting of mine. It is mixed media - acrylic and dry media. #afternoon #monday #art #owl #painting #pastel #charcoal #september #acrylic
#225
Day 225
Knives
A grey day with not much going on so here are some of my kitchen knives - not very inspiring. #afternoon #kitchen #sunday #metal #brown #knives...
#224
Day 224
Ornamental corn
We grew colourful ornamental corn for the first time this year. Here is one of the cobs. #afternoon #saturday #september #corn-cob #co...
#223
Day 223
Greenhouse
My husband in our greenhouse dismantling the shelves. A warbler had flown in the greenhouse and was under the shelving. #morning #friday #p...
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Day 222
Decorative window
A window in my neighbour's new fence. #morning #thursday #metal #decoration #fence #september #theme-windows