November

oil on canvas

15x20in, 2009

I started this painting at the beginning of November and just finished it up today. The location is the forty mile creek on the escarpment near Beamer conservation area. Upon arrival there was a Great Blue Heron as well as a family of ducks. They quickly dispersed when my dogs came on the scene.

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November (almost December)

oil on canvas

12x36in, 2009

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November

(small gift series)
oil on canvas
6x6in, 2009

Today the milkweed stood against the cold wind while I painted it. I love it's shape and texture this time of year. This one still contains seeds. I can't wait to pull them out and let the wind carry them off.

If you find milkweed in the summer, you're likely to find monarch butterflies. They need milkweed to survive. The butterfly lays its eggs on milkweed plants and the larvae eat the leaves. They contain toxins, which don't hurt the caterpillar or butterfly, but they do make the Monarch poisonous to it's predators.

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November

(small gift series)

oil on canvas

6x6in, 2009, available

Today in the thick grey fog and drizzle I came upon this nest very low among the wild grasses . I like to think it is that of a Bobolink, although I've read they usually nest right on the ground.

Bobolinks nest in hayfields and meadows across the northern United States and southern Canada during the summer months of May through early July, and I am happy to say that each year I've had the pleasure of seeing and hearing more and more of them on the Niagara escarpment.

Their song has been vividly described as "a bubbling delirium of ecstatic music that flows from the gifted throat of the bird like sparkling champagne," "a mad, reckless song-fantasia, an outbreak of pent-up, irrepressible glee," and as "a tinkle of fairy music, like the strains of an old Greek harp."

The Bobolink makes one of the longest migrations in the western hemisphere—a round trip of approximately 20,000 km (12,400 miles)! They migrate to the vast grasslands of southwestern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina to spend the austral spring and summer months of November through March.

November

oil on canvas

9x11in, 2009

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I've taken to bringing along my painting gear when I head out with my three dogs for their daily run behind my escarpment home. They love this as an hour often turns to three--more time to hunt for mice and chase rabbits and deer while 'Mom' is 'catching' the land with her box of paints.

November, Remains of the Day

oil on canvas

30x40in, 2009

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No matter the time of year or the time of day, I am forever inspired by the provocative-and evocative- vineyard.

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November

(small gift series)

acrylic on canvas

6x6in, 2009

$75