Holidays
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Merry Christmas 2024! — 11 Christmas Paintings by Norman Rockwell in a 2022 Article From HistoryHit
It’s nice to have 2 great art sites with slightly differing options for much of my art work!
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Happy 4th of July 2024! 🇺🇸 ❤️ Remember to Vote! 😊
Burlington Vermont waterfront last night, where fireworks are on the night before.
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July 05, 2022 – Small But Welcome 4th of July Celebrations from Our New Location at #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas
That I’m running late with today’s blog post is a bit of an understatement, it being 1/2 past 11 and nearly Wednesday! But Sheila and I stayed up late a bit, enjoying peeks of fireworks and seeing folks enjoying being able to ( mostly, but not everywhere : Chicago parade shooting ) be out –
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June 19, 2022 – Happy Father’s Day! – My Dad : Tough Choices and A Life Well Lived
The pic of my dad above, left side, looking down, lips pursed, touching his fingers together to help make the connections he needed inside himself, was before he left for several months-long journeys from Brownsville to Houston to secure work and a place for us to live.
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May 08, 2022 – Remembering and Celebrating Mother’s Day!
Apparently I’ve quite a slew of Mother’s Day posts over the years, lol! And yesterday ( Sat, May 7th ), I got to spend more time with family – other than my own mom’s funeral late last year – than before the pandemic!
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January 07, 2022 – Delivering New Art to the Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas – Valentine Hearts and More!!!
No mere change-out, I swapped out most ( but not all ) of my originals and brought in a stack of 6×9 original acrylic and watercolor hearts. The best way for me to package the latter was to place the on-paper hearts in 8×10 sleeves with an acid-free backing. I did well with these last…
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January 01, 2022 – Happy New Year!
Happy New Years 2022 everyone! I got myself ready for the new year activating things I didn’t want to wait to “intend” to do, kinda my New Year resolutions put into motion so I’d at least start with some of them in place! One of those was re-using my New Years Eve post header image…
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December 12, 2021 – My Most Viewed Image This Past Week @FineArtAmerica, Peace
Another new release becomes my most viewed image on Fine Art America, this for the 1st week in December 2021 😊 Not all new releases become most viewed the week they’re released, and for awhile, even that was a rarity; lately though, it occurred enough for me to notice, lol! Is my work getting better?…
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December 04, 2021 – Delivering New Art to the Old Bakery and Emporium (across from the State Capital) Austin, Texas – Peace, a New Holiday Painting
Peace, my delivered painting, itself has gone through several metamorphoses to completion, starting way back to August this year (2021) when I was tentatively calling it Holiday Walk; I’d posted about it early September – September 08, 2021 – Developing 2 New Figure Paintings on Light Molding Paste on Canvas – 1 Watercolor, 1 Acrylic…
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November 25, 2021 – Happy Thanksgiving 2021!!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’m posting the same header as last year, Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom From Want” oil on canvas from 1943, smack in the middle of the 2nd World War.
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November 11, 2021 – Reblog of my 2014 Veteran’s Day Blog Post : Let Us Remember Why
I’ve added the info below, as my original 2014 Veteran’s Day post is quite short, though I did update it this week 😊
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October 31, 2021 – Happy Halloween! For the Kid in All of Us!
Though Halloween trick or treating isn’t til this evening, this handmade (with his daddy’s help) costume for Max has already been to pre-Halloween party last week, his school’s Halloween party a few days ago, and tonight, the big event!
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September 05, 2021 – Labor Day Weekend, What Labor Means to Me Today at Age 70+
I don’t think there’s much argument that the meaning of holidays and occasions, historically and personally, change over time. With that in mind, I’m giving myself a little latitude to just muse and ponder what “labor” means to me now as I approach my 71st birthday later next month. The effort itself, to rationalize my…
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June 01, 2021 – Memorial Day Weekend Review
My Memorial Day Weekend – long, wet, and very enjoyable! Thanks of course to the so very many who sacrificed to make this relative time of peace possible. I served in the….
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March 17, 2021 – Happy #StPatricksDay! My Father-in-Law’s Favorite Holiday!!
Though deceased, my wife’s dad happily live large in her heart and those who knew him ♥️
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March 15, 2021 – Some Left Over Pi(e) #PiDay
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on having my Pi(e) and eating it too, some fun Pi tweets I saw last night before bed 😊
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March 14, 2021 – Can I Have My Pi(e) and Eat it Too! Yes I Can! On Happy #PiDay!
Besides also be Daylight Savings Day, jumping forward, sideways or such 😏 – it’s also Happy Pi Day!
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Welcome 2017!
Hello 2017! Happy New Year everyone 🙂 It’s been so long since I last posted, my entire WordPress setup for posting has changed, lol! Needless to say I’ve tried all sorts of ways to get myself to post regularly again and failed. I seem much more suited for Twitter’s image-short txt format, and somewhat to…
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Veterans Day 2014 – Let Us Remember Why
Veterans Day 2014 – Let Us Remember Why *** Pictured left, “Upholding the Constitution” Kindle edition available on Amazon – https://amzn.to/3n60Ayc And via : Audio : https://amzn.to/2YyB7Un *** “the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”…
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Happy National Chocolate Day! – 2014
Happy National Chocolate Day! 2014 *** Pictured left, “Slumming in Paris, Part Three : With The Children – Boys & Girls in Paris” Available at Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited, and as an audio book. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G3AP6FK Adventures in Paris. This one includes a stop in a chocolate store for the youngest two, Buzz and Zilker.…




















