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As the weather gets cold, we tend to spend more time inside (this year in particular), so curling up on the sofa with a Christmas movie seems perfect to me. Yes, some hot cocoa, popcorn and maybe some Christmas cookies…

During the holidays, there is so much to see: the lights, trees, and everyone dressed in their sparkly best. Then if it snows, it’s a whole new beautiful world. Artists have long tried to convey the Christmas spirit. From early…

Sometimes when I find a great book, I look for more books by the same author. Whether it’s more books in a series or just one book, I need to hear everything the author has to say. I feel like…

I read once that Piet Mondrian would look at a landscape, really look at the landscape, by squinting his eyes to shrink down the scene. He’d take out all the unnecessary stuff leaving just bare bones, just the shapes, and…

Black cats and Halloween really go together. This time of year, images of black cats are everywhere. A sleek black cat silhouette sits in the light of a full moon. Glowing eyes peek out from behind a window or on…

There is a certain chill in the air this time of year. Days are getting shorter, shadows just a little longer. As the leaves begin to change and the nights start to get cooler, everything seems just a little darker,…

For me, fall is the time of year when I think most about trees. Don’t get me wrong, spring’s early blooms and fresh green leaves just starting to fill the branches are beautiful, especially after a long winter of bare,…

Little stick figure drawings have been around forever. In 1994, cave art discovered in southern France was determined to be over 30,000 years old! With primitive tools like sticks, bones, and hair, these artists created fantastic art. Many prehistoric cave…

One Sunday morning, as I sat waiting for the traffic light to change, I couldn’t help but notice how the clouds filled the sky. Shapes were emerging, then disappearing into the fluffy, white masses in the sky, floating off as…

Sunflowers are my favorite flowers! There is something so happy and warm about a sunflower. They are like a little bit of the sun captured in a flower! The French word for sunflower is “tournesol,” which literally translates to, “turns…