On 01.02.02, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Too late for surgery, I had chemotherapy, which failed. In May the chemotherapy was changed and I was soon in remission which was celebrated and welcome and lasted nine years - until October 2011. There was progression in 2011 so more treatment was indicated and I am now back in partial remission. But I'm not only a cancer patient - I also enjoy my family, walk my dogs and am learning to draw and paint. Life is good!

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

A fool's day

I continued my divided painting of flowers today in my watercolor class. There are four panels of equal size but only two are finished. This is the second one. I began the other two but they aren't ready to show yet.

Steve and I worked on the community bike path today and have it almost spiffed up for spring. There's just one section left to mow. Our section has a lot of wild flowers. I mowed through most of them but was very careful to swerve around all the California poppies, our State flower and an endangered species. Later I trimmed the weeds around each one to give them a chance to survive.

10 comments:

  1. Wow! This is wonderful!

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  2. Anonymous2:12 AM

    Your painting are so nice. :-)
    I love draw and paint too but not really good. T_T

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  3. Your yellow lily looks bright and cheerful. I'm looking forward to seeing the others ones.

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  4. This is really lovely!

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  5. Yes...bring on the spring.....I am so ready for warmer weather and sunshine...but then again I live in Oregon where the rain makes it clean and green,.

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  6. This is beautiful!

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  7. I like this... if this is as muddy as your yellows get... you're doing fine!!
    Have you ever addresed your remission/recovery? I'd love to know how you explain it to yourself.

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  8. Anonymous5:50 AM

    This is fantastic! Amazing depth from watercolors!

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  9. This is lovely, great soft details, I can't wait to see the rest.

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