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Paintings on recycled vintage postcards. Meow!

28 Friday Nov 2008

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Hector & Persephone never expected to find true love in the catnip patch.

catspostcard2Being a Pisces, Murdock was always polite and optimistic.

I love painting on the backs of old postcards. It’s fun working in a cozy 4×6-inch window, with old stamps and handwritten messages peeking through the color.

This week, I’ll be working on art for my Holiday Open Studio. 

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the first of the fall garden broccoli matured. Nothing tastes better than tender, steamed broccoli carried straight from the garden to the stove. The Perfect Man drizzled a bit of lemon butter over the top — ahhhh. Heaven! Next week, the first round of cabbage will be ready. And the kale, sweetened by last week’s freeze, is growing faster than ever. Alas, a couple of 80-degree days last week caused the lettuces to bolt. (If at first you don’t succeed… plant, plant again.) And our cauliflower seems to be sulking, all leaves and no tasty center, while its neighboring veggies are happily producing abundant winter fare.  Every gardening season has its little mysteries.