Flowering Crabapple Tree, Mars, PA – Spring 2018
All of the Sudden.
You wait.
You wonder.
You anticipate.
And then
one day
you blink.
And all of the sudden
the beauty and joy and delight
appears.
All of the sudden.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Pink Dogwood Blossoms Watercolor – 11×14 140lb Cold Press Saunders
Pink Dogwood Blossoms in Watercolor
As we begin the month of June and the warmth of Summer is upon us,
I celebrate the end of Spring with this painting of Pink Dogwood Blossoms.
We only have white dogwood trees in our yard, but they are very old.
I wonder about their history as they were here on the property for likely many years before we built our house on the wooded 3 1/2 acre plot we’ve called home for 17 years now.
Some have died and had to be cut down this Spring. Makes me sad to see them go, but maybe we can replace them with some new pink ones. Maybe the old white ones can share stories with the new pink ones. Do you ever wonder if the trees and other things in nature communicate to each other?
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Thanks Andrew Geeson for another inspiration Youtube tutorial!
The Old Dogwood Trees’ Blossoms
A Brief Visit.
Your visit is so brief….
but your memory lingers,
and it is ceremoniously revived
each Spring when you surprise me yet again.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Dogwood Tree Blossom, The Other Side, Mars, PA
As you stretch and reach
and open yourself
to the sunshine
after the rain
I admire your beauty
from underneath
And wonder if its really much different
on the other side?
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Open your eyes.
Close your narrow views.
Open your ears.
Close your inner negative thoughts.
Open your mind.
Close your ignorance.
Open your heart.
Close your hate.
Open your arms.
Close them in a hug.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
the creative life in between 
