Our Lavender Provencal is spectacular this year.
This bouquet picked today is filling the house with its wonderful aroma…
…but as you can see I couldn’t resist a stopover in the studio on the way.
Collage of today’s pruned camellia branches together with past watercolor studies.
Waste not want not
a girl can never have enough dresses – matted and framed
just like her shoes.
The girl of course is our beautiful two year old granddaughter.
New York, New York
This collage of an imagined Manhattan skyline was created from a Playbill from the Shubert Theatre for the show Crazy for You, which we saw on a visit to New York in 1993. I originally posted it in January 2015 just before our last New York visit and early in my 365 day blogging challenge that year. You can see the full image here on Day 26.
After Part 1, time for Part 2



Antelope Canyon II 11.5.15 matted and framed.
Bridging time, place, studio and friends, this photo was taken in Venice almost twenty years ago. Back in the studio a few years later it inspired the painting that then became a gift to dear friends.
Speaking of bridges here are a few featured on thechangingpalette over the past few years: