Pines

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I felt inspired to do a folk art painting this morning.

I find drawing and painting very pleasant and sort of soothing/contemplative.

I am posting 2 images of pines.

They remind me of cottage country and seem suitable

for summer.

Both paintings are made from my own photographs and a

photograph of my mother's. This avoids copyright issues for me.

The standing pines image is from yesterday's photo. The tree and rocks

is a juxtaposition of my mother's photograph of the rocks at Peggy's cove

and one of my own photos of a local pine tree. It is meant to represent

a tree growing on an island in cottage country. Awkward and
stunted by wind off the water.

I love being creative. What a great way to start off

my birthday today.

Have a surge-of-creativity-kind-of-day.

Helen.