Colorful Sunset and more Lynxie Trees ~ We've had some really nice colorful sunsets lately and I was glad to capture this on my camera this evening right before the sun went down. I liked how the headlights showed up in the picture

to give it some extra interest. I'm still painting the Lynxie Trees and I guess I'll keep painting them until I get tired of doing them I'm still having fun with the acrylics, medium charcoal pencil and crystal glitter. Wow, it seems like winter is finally done here and we may be turning on the AC soon. After tomorrow, we are going to have a spell of days in the 80's! Woohoo, summertime is right around the corner and we'll be putting up the big old swimming pool out in the backyard!

Tropical Storm Ida ~ "Ooh look at these pretty, wispy feathery clouds!" That's what I was saying on Tuesday as I took the three photos above. Little did I know that we were about to be clobbered with around seven inches of rain, flooding and high winds for the next three days, thanks to tropical storm Ida! We were one of the lucky ones though since we didn't lose power... although it almost went off several times. I had the hurricane lamps and candles ready. For the photos below, fast forward to Saturday evening a little after 5 p.m. ...what is that reddish color on the tops of the trees across the road?! Yeaaa, it's the sun, which we haven't seen since Tuesday...and I can see the stars up there tonight, so I know that Ida has finally traveled out of central Virginia! Yeaa, sunshine tomorrow and I'm looking forward to seeing it again, whew what a soggy week!!

Colors of Autumn ~ This is two new aceo size paintings I did this week in acrylics. I have them both listed in ebay. I've been really feeling the mood of fall...especially since the temps have dropped and we are turning on the heater at night now, brrr!

I'm so proud of my daughter, who is so very busy...working and going to college classes to someday become a pharmacist. She had a break today before classes and found time to visit her dad and me and have a cup of coffee and a visit.

All day long, we haven't seen a speck of sun. It was gray and drizzling all day. Then right as it got dark, we look out west and finally see the sun right as it was setting in fiery colors!

Dramatic and colorful skies tonight ~ I don't have any new paintings to share, but instead I'll share the fantastic skies that we had right at sunset this evening! Thanks to a bunch of storm cells popping up all around us, the sky looked so amazing I was running for my camera! Now if I could capture all those colors in a painting! TGIF and I hope everyone has a great weekend!