Sad about our neighbours moving -- and summer going so fast

Summer love

Acrylic in and pencil

on watercolour paper

5 x 7 inches

Barbara Muir © 

Love this little painting -- maybe I should do a big one.  It sums up
what we see on our trip across Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia.  This year that happens next month. Canada you are so beautiful.

I am still working on a new painting today. We spent a fabulous evening 
at a neighbourhood party across the street.  So delightful. So sad that our
friends are moving away.  But we're grateful that they'll be in Toronto.
We will get together.

Have a loving your life day.

Major helpers -- Flora Doehler

Flora Thinking

Acrylic on canvas

8 x 8 inches

Barbara Muir ©

I discovered this painting in a box of small paintings in our cold room tonight. 
And I love it. My friend Flora Doehler has been such a helper in my painting
life.  She encouraged me to start blogging about a year before I did. My son
Christopher got my blog going and I am extremely grateful to him. And Flora
had been on my case to get it together. I am so grateful to her.

I learned about the vivacity of acrylic ink from Flora too.  And she has inspired
me in too many ways to share here. Apparently she posed over Skype for me. 
So she was part of that exciting story, which thanks to Howard Wolinsky's push
to see Skype paintings for a Skype blog he was doingat the time, got the interest
of the people at the Oprah Winfrey show, and lead me to one of the most amazing
experiences in my art career -- drawing Oprah live via Skype on her show. So this
portrait makes me happy.  Thank you for your help and encouragement Flora.

Forgive the layout issues with this post.  My web helper is off for a week, so we'll
fix it when she returns.

Have a loving your life day! 

Summer views

Full Tank

Watercolour on watercolour paper

9 x 12 inches

Barbara Muir ©

In a month or so we'll go on the road trip to Nova Scotia that inspired this
painting, and a few others like it about being on the road.  Watching movies
set in Italy and France, I'm glad to see that these big cars are not the
dominant ones.  Small cars are a practical choice in towns where the
streets were built centuries ago. Although a friend from Paris just told me

I was wrong. There are SUVs in Paris.

In a way SUVs are practical, because they can hold the kids, the pets, and
luggage.  But they require a lot of energy to run, and in cities with narrow
streets they make negotiating traffic difficult.  Steven and I have cars.  
But they are getting rarer to find.  In fact Ford is no longer selling cars

in Canada. 

Still I like this painting of a very pretty SUV filling up on the road.

Have a loving your life day!

 

Wonder Water Image #6

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir © 
SOLD ♥

(The model for this painting is

a wonderful young woman.)

Painting all day today on a smaller ocean painting, and a post I
saw scrolling through my blog made sense for today. So here it
is slightly edited:

"The first time I saw the ocean was when I visited my sister in

Philadelphia, and we went to the Jersey shore.  The ocean was
so magnificent, and I'd never seen it. I was hooked. I've loved
being near the ocean ever since. In some ways Steven and I have
worked together to design our life around the ocean.  We have a
rustic little school house near Pugwash, Nova Scotia, and when we are
there we usually go to our favourite beach every day, rain or shine.

This year with fires coming on not far from the Nova Scotia border,
we're not sure if we can get there. Last year it was very hot when we
went at the end of July, first week in August.

Still I know that our oceans are so beautiful. The mesmerizing sound
of the waves is addictive and calming. And there are so many fascinating
creatures living on the beach and in the water.

We need to save our oceans from the plastic onslaught we've
been subjecting them to. The wonderful woman in this painting
is working hard on making this a better world.  Thank you
Etana."

Have a loving your life day!

 

Happy International Daughters and Sons day

Spring Break Shoreline

Acrylic on Canvas

30 x 30 inches 

Barbara Muir © 2007

(Sam, me and Christopher)

Christopher and Sam
my sons,
photo
Barbara Muir ©

Megan at The Stork Restaurant
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Barbara Muir © 2010

(Christopher's wife Megan --
 our daughter-in-law)

Wonder Water Image #5

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir © 2015

Emily, my son Sam's wife -- 
our daughter-in-law.

Today I'm reposting my blog from this day last year.  It seems perfect. As far as painting goes I am gessoing two layers on two canvasses and doing underpaintings, so at this point the visuals are not very exciting. We're so lucky to have two wonderful sons, and that they in turn have brought two amazing daughters-in-law into our family. I love the love shared by our family.  So on this special day I honour those great people, and am so grateful for all of the joy they've brought into our lives.

Have a loving your life day.

A Peach of a Day

 

Peach party

12 x 12 inches

Acrylic on canvas

Barbara Muir © 

Today was a great day all day.  It's late and I'm very tired, and so happy thinking about it.

On our minds all day was a cherished family member's birthday.  We couldn't get together because we are currently in different places, but we left wishes, and Happy Birthday songs via the phone and messages.

Plus today we got to see a dear friend who was the coordinator for the three Carousel du
Louvre exhibitions I was in in the Louvre in Paris.  She is a wonderful, funny, brilliant
woman and we had a great time with her -- taking her around to show her our very
not Paris life.  She has been on holiday in Ontario, and is heading back to Paris, so

we were delighted to get together.

As for peaches -- the time is coming.  Steven has ordered organic peaches with the 
person in the market who sells peaches by the basket -- so as soon as possible we will
be in process -- Steven does the canning (no sugar), and I freeze trays of chopped up
peaches.  Such a treat as winter closes in (a few months from now thank goodness.)

Have a loving your life day!

Movie night and journal memories

 Journal sketch based on

Young Woman (Simonetta Vespucci?)

in Mythological Guise

tempera on panel

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

Sandro Botticelli,  c. 1480/1485

Barbara Muir © 2023

It's movie night.  I was at a very happy opening for the Let's Play
show at the Heliconian Hall today.  I met so many great people,
and had super conversations.

Thinking about Europe and a friend who's visiting from Paris
tomorrow, I saw this journal entry and thought -- perfect!

I'm still working on a complicated painting.  So have a great day
tomorrow.

Have a loving your life day!

International Cat Day

Fiona

Acrylic on mounted birch panel

5 x 7 inches

Barbara Muir © 2014

Today is International Cat Day, and without knowing that I put this painting up on

the mantle in our TV room today, so we could see our cat Fiona every night when
we settle on the couch to watch our favourite show.  Fiona died in June at 17 1/2 years

old and we miss her terribly.  

In fact our next door neighbour, who has a dog, was talking about thinking
about getting a cat today.  And I get it.  We love cats.

We now have one beautiful cat and a sweet dog.  I don't have a painting of
our young cat -- Monet -- but she is a beauty.

So the painting is of Fiona, and here's to cats -- one of the most delightful animals
on the planet. Smart, affectionate, tidy, funny, playful, loving.  The best.
We love our dog -- make no mistake.  Plus our dog Sally loves our cat, and she loves
Sally.  If you have a cat, or cats Happy International Cat Day.

Have a loving your life day.

The arrival of the bees and wasps means summer is speeding along

 

The Maple syrup fans on the back porch

Photo
Barbara Muir ©

A sign that summer is almost over is the invasion of the syrup fans on our

back porch.  We love sitting out on the porch, but we've hit the season when
we have to think of a way to keep the bees and wasps away.  This gimmick

makes then happy and uninterested in us.  All it takes is a plate -- put on a 

surface away from where you want to sit, and some maple syrup.  

Suddenly the creatures are busy and you can have your coffee.

Have a loving your life day!

Love keeps returning

 

View of the river

Photo

Barbara Muir © 2022

I met a woman today at the second opening of the Let's Play show, who had recently 

lost her partner.  I felt so badly for her.  It made me think of this post, because we

visited this boat launch on my parents' old street last weekend. Love doesn't go away.

I enjoyed a lot of meetings with people at the opening. Some serious and some joyful.
It was great.  Here's what I said before:

"My parents would be shocked I think to know that whenever Steven and I
visit Ottawa, we now go out to a place where we can buy chicken wraps,
and then drive to the end of my parents' street to the boat launch to look at
the water.  After my mother died, a multi-millionaire bought her cottage-like
house, tore it down and built a pretentious, squarish mansion.  It couldn't be more
different than what my parents enjoyed.

But as I've said before, my parents taught me to love water. Every summer
from the time that I was two they drove our whole family to a cottage that
was a 2 1/2 hour drive from Ottawa. We swam every day, canoed, and loved
the views on the lake. When we moved to Toronto, my uncle sold the 
cottage we'd rented, and that pleasure was over, so it was extra special
when my parents moved back to Ottawa and they were right on the Ottawa river.

That place also held special memories for me. Wonderful visits with amazing
scenery."

Have a loving your life day!

Come out to Let's Play (cookies! and art lol)

Flowers for the table 
Acrylic on canvas

12 x 12 inches
Barbara Muir © 2025

Have a loving your life day!

 

A wonderful time in Ottawa

Ordering Dinner
Marker on drawing paper

5.5 x 8.5 inches
Barbara Muir © 

We just got home from a sweet long weekend in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. 
We had a wonderful time -- hanging out in the hotel watching a new
show on the giant TV screen, driving through the countryside to see
family.  Looking at awesome views from my sister-in-law and brother's
place. 

August is shaping up to be wildly busy.  So it was just what we needed
to get a break. Lovely, funny kind people. The air was rough from
the fires, and is not good here in Toronto either.  So we didn't have outdoor
time. But it was still great.

Have a loving your life day!

Still celebrating the anniversary of our first date

 The two of us in Quebec City

watercolour and marker on

watercolour paper

9 x 10 inches

Barbara Muir ©

(This is a watercolour sketch I tried to do

as a surprise for Steven quite a while back.)

We were still busy celebrating today with family.  I was looking for
an image that would suit the occasion, and this came up.  I know
you've seen it many times, but it still does the job.  I like the post
that went with it, which seems right tonight:

"Steven and I have two monthaversaries.  How crazy eh?

Twice a month we wish one another 'Happy Monthaversary!' 

One is the Monthaversary of our wedding day.  The

other is for the day we began dating. We started dating

at the end of July, and were married the following June.

We were definitely a case of love-at-first-sight, and I'm so

glad we were.  The fact that we're still together, and I'd say

happier than ever is a miracle.

The kindness and understanding of friends, great advice

from my sister, the therapist, and then a few years of

therapy with a really great therapist during harder times

helped us learn how to be happy, and in love.  Apparently

we make the decision to fall in love on the cellular level. I am

grateful to my cells for that decision.  And I'm grateful to the

wide community in our lives for helping us to grow up

together.

And above all I'm grateful to my sweetheart for loving me

no matter what.  I am so glad we share an overwhelming

love of funny, a delight in our family, and the antics of

our animals.  It's also lucky that we share a love of nature, and

are touched by small things like the flowers blooming

valiantly in our garden despite the high heat of recent

weeks. So Happy belated Monthaversary to you Steven, and
I hope that my other blogger friends have people in their lives who

mean as much to them as you mean to me.

If you don't have someone who loves you this much now,

I am wishing that that person walks through the door in

the next few weeks.  Be ready."

Have a loving your life day.   

Movie night and celebrating that first date

Me and Steven on the beach we love in Nova Scotia.

We are not there now.  Not sure when we're going, but can't wait!

It's movie night, and we just came home from having a wonderful dinner
with family.  Steven and I are celebrating our anniversary of our first date 

a little after the fact. A lot of the discussion tonight was about art, and I love what I said about it in this former post:

"10 Reasons art makes you happy!
1. You get to really see.  It is apparently true that artists see more and see differently than other people.  We are blessed with really seeing
what is out there.

2.  You get to make what no one has seen until you make it.  Even
artists who like to refer to the real world, and try to reproduce it
just as it is, are always making something new.  What a treat!

3. You are entranced by the world.  Colour is magical, simply 

drawing in a notebook is a passion -- you live a blessed life.

4. You are always learning.  No one sane says to a four year old
that that superb painting she just created isn't art. And that is true
of every age. Art is for life.

5. You become part of a world filled with new ideas, excitement, experimentation and brave expression. You make friends and spend
time with other artists who care as much about colour and light
as you do.

6.  You make people happy with your work. When I paint portraits,
I frequently paint either people who want a portrait to record a momentin their lives, or the people who the people love. When the painting is finished, collectors usually react by spontaneously hugging me
with joy -- an awesome feeling.

7.  You make yourself happy with what you make.  It's a wonderful feeling to sit in your studio and see the work you've created.  Each
painting brings back a memory and challenges you -- making you wonder what you will try next.

8. You get to travel to superb places in the worldwhere you will either take photos for future paintings, paint or draw on the spot to record the
moment, or exhibit your work and jet off to the opening!  So much fun!

9.  You get to sell your work to people who really appreciate what you do.  You are living the dream -- doing what you love to do and getting paid for it!

10.  You go to bed each night excited about the next day, and the work you are currently doing.  You cannot get your work out of your mind.  In your sleep you dream about new paintings and how you'll handle them.

Author's note: These are the happy aspects
of art.  I know that the opposite experiences
happen too, but this list is about happy.  ;-)"

Have a loving your life day.

August first has been a crazy day -- and all is well!

 

Golden Light
Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches
Barbara Muir © 2025

You know those days when everything that should go right, goes wrong.  Today
was one of those days and it wasn't.  Extremely frustrating.  Traffic at a 
standstill, and we had somewhere to go.  Waits on the road, for up to 3/4
of an hour.  But hey!  What was good?  Working with a wonderful friend, a
delicious dinner with my sweetheart made by a Thai chef who knows us and
was glad to see us.

And this painting makes me happy. It sums up in a way the incredible beauty
I saw today. 

Have a loving your life day!

End of July

Robin earns his stripes

Acrylic on canvas

8 x 8 inches

Barbara Muir © 
On view at the Heliconian
in the Let's Play show,
opening August 6 -- 4 - 6 p.m.
(This is called Robin earns his stripes,
but currently it could be called

Robin earns her stripes because
a robin is raising a family of 4 on

a nest on top of one of the posts
supporting our front porch.
It's pretty cute.)

I'm sorry it's the end of July.  It feels like the summer is racing away.  And the
trouble is, it's been too hot most of the time to enjoy the things I like most
about the summer -- long walks on shady streets.  Even so
I was just making a list of 31 things I liked about July, and we had so much fun.

We are lucky to have air conditioning in our house, and our car.  So on days of really
deadly heat, (and there were quite a few) if we needed to go somewhere we were fine.

Generally speaking it is about 10 degrees cooler at the lake (Lake Ontario), so we had
some very beautiful walks beside the gorgeous blue.  We saw our family.  We talked to fun 
friends on the street.  And I worked on starting some paintings.

Have a loving your life day!

Forced to chill

 

First stop Paris

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir ©

It seems like the right night for this painting. As soon as I have some money saved,

this will be my first stop.Workers were in the house today and I am grateful for their
work, but I couldn't paint.

So what to do? Try deleting. First I went through my email got rid of one thousand
emails, then looked through the thousands of photos on my phone. The result? Lots
of subjects for new work, and inspiration. So all in all it was well worth it.

After his work was over I drew fast sketches of Paris for Steven on my iPad.
Nothing good enough to show you. But we had fun. It's exciting to know that we've
been there enough times, that I can draw something very fast and sketchy
and Steven knows where it is.

Have a loving your life day!

Painting, and other obligations

 

The Docent
marker on Bond paper
8 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Barbara Muir © 2022
(This was meant to be a
sketch, but I could see
myself doing more 
work on it.)

Today has been busy with painting, and going to a medical 
appointment.  All is well.  The painting is a landscape 
beautiful view, and I think I may be being too detailed with it. 

So we'll see.  What's exciting is that I'm having fun.  And I'm

taking it in small steps.  

Now it's TV time.  So I hope you had a great day.  Oprah, Beyoncé,
and Kamala Harris please be careful.  What a very crazy world 
it is right now. 

I miss New York and the MoMA and this docent was a very 
kind person.

Have a loving your life day!

The other part of the artist's life

Flowers for my father

pencil crayon on paper

21 1/2 x 26 inches

Barbara Muir ©
(the drawing was photographed
through glass because it's
framed.)

Today I worked with a wonderful person on updating my website. Don't get too excited.  There's a long way to go.  But it's so nice working on something that terrifies you, with someone funny and calm.  In fact it's nice working on anything with someone funny. 
The best.

So that is good news because my website needs an update.  I also painted for an upcoming show while the web designer courageously moved through my files trying to find answers for the vital questions of what is what?, and where do I find it? Done.

I'm showing you this drawing, in part because I have a friend who is a coloured pencil artist, and partly so you can see where I came from. I used to do coloured pencil drawings to sell for next to no money.  Then I took a course with Skip Lawrence based on acrylics, and watercolour, and never looked back.

Ease came into the process. So fun!

Have a loving your life day!

 

Hot Sunday

New friends from the

park at the lake

Photo

Barbara Muir © 2025

(This is from a week or so

ago.  This beautiful woman was

holding a new baby, and

I asked if I could take her

picture -- possibly for a painting

some day.  She said yes, and

here's the photo.  Get this --

she's the baby's grandmother.

So sweet.  She came to help

her daughter.)

Today has been incredibly hot. As I write this, we are down at the lake,
which is thankfully about 10 degrees cooler than Midtown Toronto.
People are partying and walking along the lake. And it is beautiful here.

We are so lucky that our friend at our favourite takeout place stayed
open in this high heat to make us supper. Oh dinner's ready! So that’s
it for tonight. 

Have a loving in your life day!

Busy Saturday -- some good thoughts from the past

 

It's movie night.  So here's a combination of thoughts from former years.

The news is, and has been hard for months.  I feel powerless reading
about wars, famine, politicians fighting for positions, instead of demanding 
ceasefires, and that food go to the people who are starving to death, that we take
care of the environment. Plus as artists, we still need to create.  It is our
purpose to use our abilities even when things are so grim.  

It was a beautiful day here, if way too hot, and I found a post from a few,
years ago with a very bad video by me about how Georgia Fullerton's GASP method
is somewhat magical, and worked for me. Forgive the terrible quality of the video.
To put it mildly I am not a techy.

"2020 was when this long, long pandemic began.  We
had no vaccines, and new variants kept coming at us.
One of my friends, the wonderful artist Georgia Fullerton,
held a GASP session for artists on Zoom, to try and inspire us
 to keep going.  I will quote that piece tonight, and show the poor
 quality video I made to go along with the blog post.

"COVID -19 (which by the way continues.  Now add measles

and RSV.  Close friends just had COVID) has shut a lot of
artists down.  We keep trying, but the impetus to paint has been
impacted by the facts -- so many galleries being closed, rare
meetings with other artists. 

On June 26 (a few years ago) Georgia Fullerton held a Zoom event to
introduce her GASP method of painting people's emotions and histories.
She had wonderful, inspiring guests.  And I don't know about the effect on
other artists, but it got me back into the studio in a pre-COVID-19
way.  I'm not saying the art I'm producing is great, but I feel super
painting.  The joy of doing it has come back to me.  I credit
Georgia.  Oh and of course my husband Steven who came into the
studio and said he liked the painting I was working on.  We need
that support."

Have a loving your life day.

How about this cool drawing of Jon Stewart

 

Jon Stewart  on The Daily Show

He asks the burning questions of the day -- with humour

Black marker on bond paper

81/2 x 11 inches

Barbara Muir © 

When I drew this Jon Stewart was on the Daily Show all week, not just
on Mondays.  He is still so funny, direct and takes on all of the 
ridiculous antics of the current government and its supporters --
who are trying so hard to turn a blind eye to everything their
leader does.  We need truth tellers. Especially funny ones.

Big fan of yours Jon.

Have a loving your life day!

The last drawing of Stephen Colbert for now

A man IV

 Marker on watercolour paper

8 x 10 inches
Barbara Muir ©

As the Stephen Colbert cancellation reaction grows stronger, I am
including the last of my viable Stephen Colbert drawings today.
When I did these I had a fantasy of being invited on the show,
which is pretty funny now that I think about it.  But I was on

the Oprah Winfrey show, so maybe that explains why I

thought I had a chance.  

It's been a great day.  Super hot, so I was delighted to spend the
afternoon visiting a friend in her office. So much fun.  And 

one of my paintings decorated her wall.  Awesome.  

Have a loving your life day!
And stand up for people who call out leaders who lie.

More on The Colbert file

A man
Line drawing -- black marker on bond paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches
Barbara Muir © 

I'm afraid I might have lost one of my favourite Stephen Colbert images

the other night trying to copy images for my blog.  I like this one --
clearly from a while ago.  The simplicity makes me happy.  It was
cool on Monday night when all of the late night hosts plus other
stars turned up at the filming of  The Late show with Stephen Colbert --
Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Seth Myers, Jimmy Fallon, Bravo host Andy Cohen,
 and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Adam Sandler and Christopher
McDonald.  I don't think CBS or Paramount was prepared for the strong

reaction against closing the show, and it continues.

Great day today meeting to discuss a new commission.  It's going
to be fun.  Now back to work. Au boulot (in French).

Have a loving your life day!

Happy Anniversary of our first date!

This photo booth picture from the first couple of
weeks Steven van Schaik and I were together says it all.
It was love at first date.
This photo clearly spent some time in
one of our wallets before making it into an
official album.

Today was a perfect celebration of the anniversary of our first date.  I gave
Steven a large beautiful card made by our printer, and he brought me card

after card (with coffees) that he'd made to wish me a happy anniversary. 
We went down to Lake Ontario to pick up lunch at Alpacones and afterwards
fed the geese, sparrows, and seagulls our left over bread.  

The lake was spectacular, so we drove to the park we used to love, which
is supposedly being shoreline protected -- barring the neighbourhood from
enjoying this huge wild space -- and found an opening in the extensive fencing

that everyone was walking through, and another opening that let us go down
and sit on a log on the beach and watch and listen to the waves. 

Beautiful.  Thank you Steven for your love, and thank you to all our friends
and family for making our lives wonderful.

Have a loving your life day!

Beautiful Monday and more on Colbert

 

Drawing of a man 

black marker on watercolour paper

8 x 10 inches
Barbara Muir © 
(One of a series of drawings I did of Stephen
Colbert years ago.  At the time
my family was going through 
a lot, and Colbert's
humour kept my spirits up.

Given the times we're living in, humour
is more important than ever -- vital

in fact.) 

Today I worked with one of the kindest, funniest people I've ever had
the pleasure of working with.  What a treat.  She was working on hard,
complicated and dull stuff, and stayed engaged, on it, super funny and
filled with suggestions that worked.  How fun!

Now back to Colbert. When I got into doing Skype drawings (now it
would be Zoom drawings -- Hey! Good idea!), I liked to stop videos,
and draw from the still. That's how I drew Stephen Colbert in the midst
of conversations. It was around the time that I was asked to draw Oprah
live via Skype, and I fantasized drawing more of my TV heroes that way.
Stephen Colbert was definitely one of them.

I like the drawings now -- the energy and the feeling of his intelligence
combined with a superb ability to make people laugh. Enjoy.

Have a loving your life day!

The Stephen Colbert Cancellation is ridiculous!

 

The Man
Marker on bond paper

8 x 10 inches

Barbara Muir ©

Another wonderful day with the younger people in the family.  All laughter,
drawing, singing, and so much fun! Why the drawing of Stephen Colbert
from a while back?  I am angry about the Stephen Colbert show cancellation.
In a democracy (not too sure where they are anymore) comedians are
supposed to call out things that don't make sense.  Paying Donald 
Trump 16 million dollars because the network seemed to favour
 Kamala Harris, his opponent in the presidential election in one program
makes no sense. Trump won. It's like suing your neighbour because your
sidewalk got ploughed in the winter one day, and theirs didn't.

But the backlash is against Stephen Colbert for calling out the insanity.
I have been a fan of Colbert's, of Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy 
Fallon, and Seth Meyers for years.  I'm a night owl, and I trust their
views on the news, plus -- big bonus -- they make me laugh.  So I 

will show as many images as I can find of Stephen Colbert this

week. And let's hope this nonsense ends soon. 

Have a loving your life day!

Wonderful day today, with super friends over for dinner

 

Drawing of a man

 Marker on watercolour paper

8 x 10 inches
Barbara Muir © 

For the next few days I think I'll post my drawings of Stephen Colbert.  I have
enjoyed his comedy for a long time, and drawn him many times.  At one
point it was my dream to be on his show, but I'm not a big star, and I'd

probably be too shy.  Never mind.  I enjoyed his comedy and loved
drawing him.

His show has been cancelled, and I'm one of the people who is sorry about

that.  At dinner our friends talked about a lot of things.  Of course we 
touched on this topic.  The world is an upsetting place, and it was sweet
to be with people we love.

Have a loving your life day!

A Beautiful day today, and a busy happy weekend coming up

 

Macintosh Apples
Acrylic on canvas
8 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir © 

I've been painting and picking up new reference photos from my printer
for a big, complicated work. I love this painting of apples I found scrolling
through my blog.  And I love MacIntosh apples.

It's Friday night, and time to spend some time with my sweetheart. 
First a walk and then our favourite French from France TV show.  Yes. 
A great day.  I hope you had a wonderful day too.  The extreme heat and
pollution is temporarily gone. Wonderful.

Have a loving your life day!