how much snow can a winter snow?

hello friends...

I have a headache tonight,
but i'm posting this anyway.
Must be all the chocolate.

I've painted a few things lately...

I don't like this one but i'm sharing anyway.

It feels too aggressive to me

although I enjoyed painting it.

Isn't it strange

how you can be painting something

almost in a trance

and when you get done & look at it,

you think "what the hell is THIS?!"

(At least I ask myself this question)

And as you can see,

spring hasn't yet happened here.

We are in the 'dirty snow' stage of the season...

This was taken a few weeks ago,

so we have a bit less than this now.

Still lots to go.

Another painting
with happier colours

Polar bear on a funky background

If it's gonna look like Alaska out here

I may as well pretend it is. :)

I like this one a lot more.
It took about 15 minutes to paint. 
acrylic on paper

Motels & cabins near our home,
still covered in snow

the setting sun
and yes, that's the roof of the motel
you see at the top of the snow.

And a lovely sunset behind the trees.
I wanna say 'it's beautiful'
but after months of snow & cold
i'm not so sure anymore.
sigh...

books, art and ocean make my heart happy

hello everyone!

Last weekend,
i did what any crazed, middle aged,
menopausal woman would do
to keep herself from killing someone
or landing in an asylum.
i ran away from home!

So much fun.

I highly recommend it. :)

I didn't run very far,
but it's not the distance that counts -
it's being away from everything!
Halifax (Nova Scotia) is about 2 hours from here
and this, my friends, 
is the beautiful new Halifax Central Library.

Isn't it gorgeous?
The building was designed to look
like books stacked one over the other.
Genius.

 ...and this is what you see when you first come in.
A wall filled with mini rectangle paintings!
What's not to love?

 Beautiful angles & natural light inside...

and a loooooooong way down from the top.

Halifax is filled with funky little shops like this one...

and this one...

and warnings like these,

for those who dare try to steal candy. :)

A lovely walk on the snowy boardwalk

 pigeons enjoying the sun

and a pirate ship,
waiting for warmer days. :)

And of course,
no visit to Halifax is complete
without Theodore the Tugboat!

This bright yellow face floating on the blue water

was all I needed to make my heart happy again!

Thanks for hanging out with me here.
Wishing you all green lights & good coffee.
xx

lost and found in a snowstorm

Yup.

It's official!

I am at that age where everyone

and everything

is getting on my nerves.

Menopause.

Or as i refer to it:

Mentalpause.

;)

And if this damn snow continues
i swear, I'm gonna blow a fucking fuse. 
Yes, it's storming again today.
Winter began here later than usual (late December)
but it seems like we've had one storm after another.
Everyone's grumpy, (or maybe it's just me...)
everyone has cabin fever,
half our roads are still not plowed,
tonight, they predict -30C...
and the wind out there sounds like it's gonna
rip the roof right off the house.

So instead of painting pretty flowers

and rainbows and turquoise oceans...

what do I paint?

Snow.

The storm.

Cause it's all I know these days.

It's all i feel.

On a good note,
I am reading this lovely book.

Part of the inside flap reads:
Millie Bird, seven years old and
ever hopeful,
always wears red gumboots
to match her curly hair.
Her struggling mother,
grieving the death of Millie's father,
leaver her in the big ladies'
underwear department of a local store
and never returns.

 it's funny, it's sad
...and today, i read this passage (below)
and it made me cry.
Books don't often do that to me
but when one does...
wow.
Ranks right up there
with newborn babies
and sunsets
and music born out of pain.

xx