☺ When it comes to Venetian blinds, I have zero patience ... ✄

Who invented this thing? ☺

♫ Rewinding back 37 years and listening to Carly Simon

Get the song Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon on iTunes and 

the 1977 James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me on Amazon

#Wildlife Skunk in the Backyard

Rarely have we seen this skunk in the day  

Good looking eh ☺

It usually visits at night to eat sunflower seeds that the cardinals and finches have dropped from the bird feeder

See more wildlife here

#Goals #Priorities #Success "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" - Jesus

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you" - Jesus 

(Matthew 6:33)

What things? Food, clothes, shelter, relationships ... everything ☺

#Gratitude #Hugs Sincere thanks to everyone for connecting and interacting ☼

Have a great day!

♫ ✞✞✞ It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, It's what you leave behind you when you go - Randy Travis

Get Three Wooden Crosses by Randy Travis on iTunes

#BBQ #Barbecuing Beef Short Ribs Korean Style

Food tastes best when shared with friends!

Waiting to fill petrol (or should I say gas) ☺

Interesting, people will leave their mini vans unattended to admire an R8 ☺

Anyway, good to know I'm not the only Audi driver who fills at Shell

Whatever you drive, drive safe!

♫ Listening to Lina

I'm not the enemy by Lina on iTunes

You'll also find this song in the movie High Crimes starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd

There must be some special deal now at the end of the @CanadianTire rainbow eh ☺

There are two rainbows!

#Birds Purple Finch on the Feeder

Roger Tory Peterson described the The Purple Finch as a "sparrow dipped in raspberry sauce" 

The finches come here for the sunflower seeds. This is a male

See more birds here

#Art #Painting Promenade du Vieux-Port

Promenade du Vieux-Port 

16"x20" oil painting on canvas

See more paintings here

Cryptically Coloured Caterpillar

We were sitting outside when we saw this caterpillar moving up on a fine thread. What lovely colours!

#Parenting #Technology If only teenagers would show the same passion & dexterity with the vacuum cleaner as they do with their cell phones ☺

#Faith #Focus Spider trying to Walk on Water

Saw this little spider frantically trying to walk on water

If you really want to know how to walk on water, please read this

♪ The #music of Gordon Lightfoot and Jethro Tull has been the source of inspiration for my early landscape #paintings

Before CD's, YouTube and iTunes ...

Songs from the Wood (1977)

 

Heavy Horses (1978)

Dun Ringill (1979)

Broadsword (1982)

Canadian Railroad Trilogy (1967)

(My love for Canada started with this song in the '70's. Thank you Gordon Lightfoot!)

Whispers of the North (1983)

Minstrel of the Dawn (1975)

Restless (1993)

You can view some of my paintings here

☺

#Wildlife I was about to switch off the lights and go to sleep now, when suddenly ...

 ... I see this skunk savouring sunflower seeds ...

Seeds that have fallen off the bird feeder

Sweet dreams, goodnight, I'm off to sleep!

♫ Listening to Clint Eastwood

I think actors who can sing are true artists!

"Your world is nothing more than all the tiny things you've left behind

So realign all the stars above my head ..." - Clint Eastwood and Jamie Cullum

Get Gran Torino on iTunes

#Prayer is a constant conversation. Not only does HE listen, HE speaks. Am i listening?

Prayer is a constant conversation. Not only does HE listen, HE speaks. 

Am i listening?

#Art #Painting ♫ @NancySinatra's Summer Wine was my inspiration for A Glass of Shiraz

Get Summer Wine by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood on iTunes

Here is how I framed the painting

A Glass of Shiraz

12"x16" oil painting on canvas 

Framed with birch branches that fell in the last winter storm

♪ Music & sport are the two great things people can understand without any need to really speak the language - Plácido Domingo

Get Siboney by Plácido Domingo on iTunes

♫ Love listening to Demi Moore sing

Actors and actresses who can also sing, are true artists!

Louie, Louie by Demi Moore

#Leadership You can judge the #character of a person, by how they get their followers ☺

#Temptation It is better to shun the bait, than struggle in the snare - John Dryden

Have you ever been chased by wild elephants? ☺

Happened to me some years ago ...  ☺

                                             ... before digital cameras were available

Thankfully I was not hiking, but on two wheels instead!

That was sufficient inspiration for a painting

Wild Elephants in India

12"x16" oil painting on canvas