Advent
O Lord, stir up your power and come! Rescue us from sin and all evil by your holy protection. Help us to prepare our hearts for your Son's new coming in grace this Christmas. We ask this through Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Japanese cherry blossom painting
Japanese cherry blossom tree flowers acrylic modern art painting on canvas. 24 x 36 inches sakura abstract oriental asian painting on a 3 inch deep canvas, this canvas is a 3D canvas specialty canvas for modern orient art. 600 dollars, plus 30 for shipping and insurance.
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Chrysanthemums watercolor painting large art
Chrysanthemums watercolor painting, large flower watercolor painting still life 18 x 24 inches white, pink, and purple small thin long flower pedals realistic botanical watercolor original painting. Perfect Christmas gift for someone special just in time, I am posting this the day before Thanksgiving Day and right before Black Friday, I am also having a Black Friday Art Sale, this work is available as an original for 459 dollars plus 20 for shipping. Also check out my website where I have limited edition prints of this artwork also available in addition to the original.
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Historic Windsor Hotel art painting
Windsor Hotel, Americus Georgia" Cityscape hotel in Americus GA architecture historical Windsor Hotel Painting 12 x 16 inches, 159 plus 7 shipping, watercolor architecture cityscape painting pen and ink drawing if you have a certain cityscape or house you would like painted email me for an estimate.
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Pine Mountain GA Loft and Art Gallery Painting
Pine Mountain GA Loft and Art Gallery Painting
12 x 16 inches, 159 plus 7 shipping, watercolor architecture cityscape painting pen and ink drawing if you have a certain cityscape or house you would like painted email me for an estimate.
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Black Friday Art Sale
Select any art on this site or my website and send me an email and I will send you an invoice with 30% off send me an email
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A Simple Feast
Roast Turkey stuffed with root vegetables & fresh rosemary (local)
Butternut squash (local) Pilaf
Steamed Green Beans (local)
Sweet Potato (local) Casserole
Thanksgiving Table
Inspired by Thrifty Decor Chick, I transformed orange craft pumpkins found on clearance, into beautiful metallic pumpkins with a can of Rust-Oleum Burnished Copper spray paint. I finished the pumpkins off with monogram label tags printed on cardstock. These pumpkins are now ready for our Thanksgiving table!
Thanksgiving Holiday Market - November 23rd
Pastured pork maple sausage links (Mae Farm, Louisburg, NC)
Still life flower oil painting
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Market Day - November 14th
Local honey, 3lbs grass-fed & finished ground beef, 1lb ground, pastured pork sausage, 2 dozen pastured eggs, 1lb Carolina style pastured pork BBQ, 2 green bell peppers, eggplant, sweet potatoes, kale, green beans, fresh rosemary & cilantro
Saturday marked the last day of the Midtown (North Hills) Farmer's Market for the year. Since May, our family has gone out every Saturday morning to partake of its local treasures. We've experienced the seasons like never before. And looked upon the faces of the people that grew our food. For me, the farmer's market has been more than just some trendy alternative to Whole Foods. It's evidence of God's provision. My own attempts at feeding our family organically-grown food from our backyard was anything but successful (unless you count an overabundance of fresh basil!). So I count it a blessing to have found such a wonderful place right in our community. To have people that care about providing responsibly grown, nourishing foods. That treat their animals ethically and allow them to roam and forage and eat in the way God intended. God bless those who fed my family during this market season. I can't wait for April!
Fall Decorating - White Craft Pumpkins
Looking to move beyond stripes and dots, I turned to the internet for inspiration. I found this post from The Pleasures of Homemaking about decorating pumpkins with scrapbook stickers. Absolutely brilliant - and something I never would have thought of! Back to Michael's I went. I found the really cute crown Manuela used in her design, as well as a damask design similar to the textured wallpaper in our foyer.
Veterinary office and old Chevy Truck painting
Artist painting art commission of a veterinarian office landscape building and a Chevy truck with a large billboard sign out front. Water color and pen and ink drawing illustration 12 x 16 inches sold. If you have a particular subject you want painted send me an email at dereklovessheila@yahoo.com for an estimate Or, send me an email
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abstract still life office painting
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On a different note at the same time my wife wrote a blog about Modern Furniture
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Noel's House Virtual Tour
Coffea arabica - Coffee it makes a great shade tolerant fruit tree.
Annona squamosa - Sugar Apple, Sweetsop "Red"
Annona squamosa - Sugar Apple, Sweetsop "Green" Noel with his highly productive tree.
Pouteria sapota - Mamey Sapote 'Pantin' this is the same tree as above you can see in the photo that this tree was badly damaged in hurricane Wilma (2005), but Noel knew that since it broke above the graft union this tree could be saved. It is still producing heavily and the fruits are delicious.
Annona salzmannii very rare!!!!! I want one!
Gonodonta nutrix Citrus Fruit-Piercer. Wagner Field Guide p.371. Breeding year-round in southern Florida, Custard Apple (Annona) is a larval food plant. This one is eating Noel's Annona salzmannii !!!!! Ouch!
Thanks to What's That Bug & kkroeker for a proper ID www.whatsthatbug.com/2009/08/16/unknown-caterpillar-from-...
Here's some pictures of the different variations bugguide.net/node/view/39479/bgimage?from=0
Hylocereus undatus Dragon Fruit 'Red'
Annona mucosa syn. Rollinia deliciosa flowers
Pouteria sapota Mamey Sapote 'Pantin' being protected by an old strawberry container what a great idea and your recycling!!! Just one of Noel's ingenious ideas to protect the valuable fruit from birds and other raiders.
Artocarpus heterophyllus Jackfruit Noel told me this tree was destroyed during Hurricane Wilma. It has recovered 100% and is fruiting. Noel says, always give a tree a chance to recover before you remove it and I agree.
Pouteria caimito Abiu protector, please recycle!
Pouteria caimito Abiu 'Marisa' the fruit is very sweet and has a nice caramel like taste.
Manilkara zapota Sapodilla these fruits taste like brown sugar to me.
Me with part of Noel's bumper crop of green and red Sugar Apples Annona squamosa what a feast I had!
Noel's House Virtual Tour by Eric Bronson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Market Day - November 7th
Since it was very cold out this morning (in the 30s!), we left the kids at home with my Mom, warmly in bed. My husband and I stopped at a few yard sales (my newest obsession) before making our way to the farmers market. Today we picked up a dozen pastured eggs, rainbow chard, a small bag of salad greens, 2 butternut squash, 3lb grass-fed & finished ground beef, pastured pork sausage links, pastured pork bacon & a few red potatoes.
Only one Saturday left for the Midtown (North Hills) Market!
Thinking Victory At Home
But then it came to me, just as I spoke victory at work, I can also speak victory in my home. I could turn this mood around by looking at the positive. I'm so blessed to be in my kitchen making dinner for tomorrow. Some do not know where their next meal will come from. Some other mother, some where in this world is staring at bare cabinets and an empty fridge wondering how she's going to feed her babies. I'm so blessed!
I'm so blessed that God chose me to be the mother of these three children. Some woman out there would give anything just to have one child, but I've been blessed with three. Three healthy, vibrant kids. I'm so blessed!
From the widow's perspective, I'm so blessed to have my husband. And from the perspective of the daughter whose mother has passed on, I'm so blessed to still have my mother with me and in good health. I'm blessed to have our home, to have means to provide for our family and to have the physical ability to do all those things on my to do list.