Category: Art

remove color

all summer long i posted colorful everything. now that the world is losing it’s color, i feel i must follow suit.

leaf me here…

during the fall, make sure you remember to look down…because all that beautiful foliage falls. Sometimes, perfectly.

the sun shines from within

i found these waterlilies at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens yesterday. Birmingham has a cold snap right now. The nights got into the mid 20s, the cold didn’t effect these beauties at all. ~amy

rescuing the flowers

i cut all my flowers in the gardens because the cold is coming. i’d rather them be toasty warm inside my house. EVERYWHERE. Lucky me.

teaching the artist to SEE…

this is my Monday, after school, art class…three 1st grade girls (my classes are no more then 3 children at a time, that i way, i get to create art with them)  i know these girls have been taught all day long, so i make my teaching very brief. At first, it is difficult to…

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gardens remain mum

i planted two types of white mums last spring. i bought them in the grocery store, i believe they were intended as mother’s day gifts. i took them home & separated them into three sections, planting them in a hodge-podge way. i watched them struggle through the heat of Alabama summers. i wondered if they…

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Alabama’s oldest restaurant

  I’ve never been to downtown Bessemer. A friend & i were in the area because we needed an army/Navy store for our son’s ‘swat team’ Halloween costumes. She told me she was taking us to the Bright Star restaurant because i’d never been before. The town is very small, very old & quite empty….

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