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Should the fritillary fly into the flower garden?




This shows the photograph from Google Images of a fritillary and a thistle (I can only say "wow!" to the yellow-orange and pink color combination!) which I used as inspiration for my collage/paper quilt made last summer. [That is the paper quilt in the background....the butterfly is made from tissue paper and acrylic paint.]

Now I am working on an acrylic painting of a flower bed and may decide to include the fritillary again. ["Fritillary" is a word I learned from reading a Mary Stuart novel, set in England of course, where she was describing a meadow near Hadrian's Wall...]

This is one of a set of paintings which I have written about here, I am down to doing the details.....I think I would like the thistle and fritillary in that flower bed! [later---you can see I did get out there and paint the butterfly/fritillary in the upper right.]

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Life is not fair. Poor Mr. Pear. While I escaped the heat and went to the movies with my girlfriends, he got to spend the afternoon cleaning the deck with a power washer. I love to see him making real progress!

The movie we saw was "Momma Mia". Absolutely a fun 2 hours! I don't care what the critics say...this movie celebrates Life, ("crazy life"!) and makes you want to get up and be a "Dancing Queen" !!!!! Don't miss it if you need to feel good!

In fact it was so good that I want to see it again with Mr. Pear! (We saw the Broadway Theater series musical together when it came to our local art center!)

[For more ABBA music in a movie, see "Muriel's Wedding" and Australian film available on DVD...] Love quirky movies anyway and the music is a bonus!