I took these various pictures here at home in northern Virginia before heading off to the Outer Banks, Salvo, North Carolina with my family last Sunday in the beginning of August, 2010.
These are of our blooming flowers in our back yard that have done especially well this season and I like how they spread and proliferate : invasive , too. I have a lot of work to do now in simple maintenance and that is okay by me. The magnificent colors come up and charm and surprise both us as the bevy of birds and bees and other bugs like lady bugs, etc that count on them as we use no herbicides and pesticides to and so everything is natural and healthy and rampant and insistent and basically except for the weeding and pulling of unwanted plant growth totally organic and unchecked by humans.
I love it : it rejuvenates and settles and pleases and teases and eases me like very little else considering all the stress and tension that we all find ourselves coping as best we can with these days.
Our local firemen here in Fairfax/ Annandale really came quickly to our distress call when a faulty propane tank leaked gas and caught on fire in two places. They are leaving our home here and in one of the pictures at least is the culprit : the propane gas canister that had to be drained completely of all the gas before the Hazmat team and the other firefighters could leave. It took three hours and I did suffer a couple of burns to my right thumb and right pinky finger that now today, Monday August 9th, 2010 seem to be largely healed.
Enjoy these pictures and stay-tuned for more as I am off all this week as well and look forward to doing lots more artwork as well as taking and posting the the pictures and writing about them.
Above is one of my hand-painted wine bottles that I believe I painted with acrylics back in 1989 ...
How time flies ...
The Monarch butterflies love these butterfly lavender bush flowers that we have many of all summer long ...
Above is my hand-painted green Bordeaux-shaped wine bottle back from 1989 ...
Lots to inspire me all the time.
The color of this hearty hibiscus above is sensational. I'm drawn to it each and every year. There are two more blooms now outside up on our hillside to the left of our big deck and I will probably go check them out a bit later. I can't help myself, really I can't. Cheers, TONY
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