jroot

ooh that sounds so beautiful!!!
(beautiful picture as well)

Looking forward to hearing/seeing all about your gardens.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Hello and WELCOME to GT!!!
Your place and gardens sound lovely. When you have a moment, would love to see photos!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Welcome! Your gardens sound lovely!

-- the day you quit learning is the day you quit living.

Thanks, guys. Much appreciated.

-- jroot

Hey, welcome to GT, jroot! You’ve got a lot of great ideas and even better execution!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Hi Jroot welcome to Gt. Looking forward to seeing your gardens. :-)

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Thanks for the “heads up” about the competition. .... and your vote of confidence. Wow! I’m elated.

-- jroot

jroot,
you mentioned on another post that your wife is an artist!!
What medium? What does she do? Do you have a blog or a site for her work?

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

She is a dry brush watercolour specialist, and is also working in oil. Both of these take a long time. We do not have a blog or site for her. Most of her work in the past few years has been commissions based on word of mouth, and from art shows. She is a member of the Guelph Creative Arts Association. It takes her a long time to paint one painting because of her style, and since nearly all her works have been sold and she has no large stock build-up, there is no need for a blog. Thanks for asking though.

Right now she is working on a large painting of some of my brugmansias. That has been for several months. I keep suggesting that she use larger brushes, but she likes her itsy bitsy small ones for detail.

-- jroot

Oh jroot I would love to see that painting when she is done … be nice if you could take a few photos for us.

Truly, I am in total awe of artists. Can’t draw anything to save my life (really tried, long story and most know that I really flunked elementaryand middle school art classes – LOL!!!) At the private school I worked at the art teacher was a fabulous artist in her own right. She did magnificient portrait work in oils. Over the years we became good friends and one year, as a gift, she had me take several photos of our children and she created a very large pencil sketch from the best photo. It is so life-like of our children at that time. It hangs with honor and much love on our prominent living room wall.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

Maybe you have some pics of her work! Sounds really interesting!
My mother used to (and still does a little bit) paint both watercolor and oil! She also did enamel on copper: paintings and all sorts of things!

So, I would really appreciate a picture of some of her work, but if it is not possible, it will be my loss I am sure!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Well, Eklectic, the avator is painted by her. She gave me that portrait, so I feel that it is okay to show that one. The others are her property, and she keeps tight control of that. I’m sure you understand.

Anyway, here I am. This is a watercolour using a dry brush technique.

The photo doesn’t do it justice, unfortunately.

-- jroot

oh my goodness.
it looks like a photograph it is so real!!
Magnificent work.

I am in awe.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Hey jroot: I posted this on my spot . Eventually, I will figure this blogging stuff out.

-- Sonya J