Brrrrrr ~ This has been one of the coldest winters here in Virginia that I can remember since I've been living here. I know spring is around the corner though. I usually wish for more snow, but this winter has granted my wishes and more. We're supposed to get around 3 more inches of snow and sleet tomorrow, ugh. I've been lazy at visiting my friend's blogs and painting but I'm hoping to catch up one of these days. I painted these two aceo sized ones (below) this past week.

Bundle up in your warm coat and snow boots ~

This is a horse barn believe it or not (lucky horses) and so pretty with the snow! I took this picture from my car window as we took a drive

Heavy snow coming down in the front yard. I think the road disappeared.

The swing in the backyard is looking a little chilly

We attempted to get to Lake Chesdin to take some more pictures but the road was closed

There were kids with sleds way out in the distance, looks so fun

Pretty curvy road in the snow

A scene we saw on our ride up the road

Berries looking bright in the snow

All that snow made me want to paint some! This is an aceo size acrylic painting with crystal glitter to make it sparkle. Listed in ebay tonight, it's #24 in my Lynxie Tree series. I'm keeping the trees coming! Here's the listing. I'll see how this one goes, hopefully everyone isn't tired of the snow yet!

My Treasures for Today ~ This beautiful heart made of clay which my dearest friend Babs surprised me with for my birthday...a very talented artist and author of the blog Off the Wall Art Babs, you know I will treasure this and thank you from the bottom of my heart, it's precious!!...and yikes, am I really 56 now? The years fly by so fast!
and the photos below ~ a single pansy pushing through the snow (I rescued the rest of them), and deer tracks in the snow all over the backyard today. We got about a foot of snow!

Big Snow!! and more Lynxie Tree aceos~ It's been snowing solidly here since about 1 a.m. last night, but the storm has finally moved on tonight (whew)... after dumping at least a foot of the white stuff on us. (but it's sooo pretty!) I'll be out there tomorrow shoveling snow off the deck, porch and the sidewalks, and ha that will be some good exercise. In the art department, I've been painting more of my little trees in aceo size in acrylics. I really like the metallic pearl and gold acrylics and I've been using charcoal pencil and graphite pencil as well. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend, and hopefully some nice weather too!