issues about posting here!

Hi, please forgive the long time away, I have had computer issues! Maybe the computer is fine and the issues are my own, I am having to learn new ways of handling photos and mail. I am such a visual person, it is a strong part of my emailing and blogging to include pictures of everything we do. I am beginning to learn where some of the functions are again, right clicking and experimenting. I shall overcome!!!

I am painting a lot lately, and have finally gone back to one I started a while back of Hailey our 16 year old Granddaughter, at the age of 2 1/2. I cropped a tiny picture of her from a group shot and love her expression for my painting.

All well here but the lack of rain, there is hope for some soon. When many parts of the country have had unbeliveable weather problems, I hate to complain above a whisper! The dreadful fires here is Texas are scarey. e

Company here from Colorado

My daughter Cheryl and her husband Glen live near Vail. He is a real mountain man and they both enjoy camping and riding their horses and photographing the wildlife there and also in the great natiional parks of the Western states. They feed numerous birds and small creatures in their yard all year round, and have hundreds of photographs of these. Cheryl is an artist and always brings some of her latest work to share with me here on their visit, as I cannot go or even breathe at over 9000 feet altitude where they live! She took many close photos of the bison in Yellowstone last year and has done some very good pastel and oil paintings from those.