Animal Wednesday from A friend's Farm

We had a delightful visit last week with Cris and Con (follow link to Cris' blog and meet all her animals again and again! ) on their little mini farm, in Roseburg, Oregon. Actually we had two visits with them. One on our way up to Portland to visit our family there, and one on the way back.

We got to meet the sheep they have grazing in their field behind their house. Cris is feeding carrots to the big sheep above.

My husband had fun meeting all the chickens and learning their names.



I was pleased with how well my photos came out.



And Daisy the cat rested in the sun room where we all gathered to chat when we weren't outside in the yard.

Cris has a beautiful garden full of blooming daisies, hydrangeas, petunias, and roses, among others. It was so pretty sitting out there and seeing them all.

We also had play time with Annie and Milo, the two dogs in residence.

Thanks Cris for lending your models for my Animal Wednesday Post this week!

What do you draw when you are sick?

 Most of you know that we got sick on the last week of our planned month long road trip and had to come home a week early to recuperate! So what did we do? We sat in recliners, took our medicine (s); and waited for our energy to return. There wasn't any energy to do much, but I could draw.

The top two drawing/paintings were done from photographs I could see on my iPad. First is Allie, our one year old grand daughter. She is a real cutie! 

And then there is Henry V, who is also a cutie, no matter how stern he tries to look.

Oh there he is again, this time drawn live while he slept between my husbands knees under the blue blanket. (surrounded by a few other sketches (art quilt/cat toy/part of a buffalo leg)...

And when you get really really bored you draw what you see, which is only your own feet!

and then because you don't feel like getting up and doing anything else, you draw them again in a different position! Feet make good models. They don't balk at sitting in one position for as long as it takes.

DH must have been feeling better this evening...I drew him playing guitar.

But now we are both finally feeling a lot better; I'm back to work, he's back to enjoying being retired,
and soon we will make up for what we lost on our road trip and go see the grandchild...

and we hope Henry will eventually forgive us it all.

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Thanks for coming to visit me here, and thanks for your comments, they mean the world to me!

PS: more trip photos can be seen in earlier posts.