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Butterfly in Abstraction

Or something. The butterfly is my original photo.

I’ve been working on trimming back hedges and picking ripe tomatoes. But it’s time to sit butt in chair and write my heart out. Some days I’ve managed a 1,000 words, but that’s not enough. I need 2,000 a day. So hoping to at least get my 2,000 today, really hoping for 3. And the same for tomorrow. Dinner with the gang to celebrate my birthday, otherwise it’s nonstop writing…hopefully. It just depends if I can get enough momentum on the story.

Have a super fun day! I need to get going on mine. 🙂

Terry

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Purple Phlox and the Butterfly

May10

Both images are mine and then I artified it.

We had another 2 inches of rain yesterday and it’s supposed to be raining on and off all day today. I’m going to have lunch with my granddaughter today. Only 2 weeks left of school, so I’ll be having lunch with her next week at school and then that’s it. She’ll be here 4 days a week, two of them with baby brother. Hopefully, I can still get some writing done, though we’ll be doing some fun stuff also.

I did manage to get 1,000 words done on White Wolf and 2,000 on Night of the Vampire done yesterday.

But today is a 2,000 word day on White Wolf, so need to get it done.

Hope you have a terrific day! I’m off to get to work.

Terry

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly

Apr29

Mixer Brush Painted Gulf Fritillary on my crepe myrtle.

I’ve got to proof Highland Wolf, but had a couple of more questions come up that I need to address. We had an inch of rain and it’s beautifully cool today.

Hope you all have a grand day! I’ve got to get cracking!

Terry

Butterfly Beauty

Feb2

I took the photo of the butterfly and used Topaz Studio to simplify it so it had more of a painterly look to match the more painterly appearance of the background texture from Daily Textures.

I didn’t have time for any writing yesterday, though I finished one of the bear orders and I’m halfway done on the other. What with getting groceries and running to Ace Hardware to find the replacement light bulbs for the kitchen (the original light bulbs are mercury which are not easily disposed of, so switching to LED as the bulbs go out) and picking up my granddaughter, feeding her, then doing her words and going to Girl Scouts, I only had time to finish one of the bears.

I hope to write some today. I have lunch with my granddaughter today, picking her up a couple of hours later, and then they’re eating dinner with me tonight so will throw a pot roast in the Crock Pot later. If I can, I’ll finish the other bear this morning and ship them off after lunch. It’s raining. We’ve had an inch so far.

Hope you all have a lovely day!! I’ve got to get mine started!

Terry

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Butterfly and Flowers

May11

Butterfly at Wild Kingdom. I love butterfly exhibits and could stay in one and take pictures all day.

I’ve done some weeding. I could do a ton more, but I want to write. I caught the rat that was eating my tomatoes and chewed a hole through the fence. But of course there are tons more. I heard one in the wall yesterday afternoon, scratching like it was as big as my 15 lb dogs. I thought it was them! Until I saw them watching me, waiting for me to get rid of the rat. ugh. Time to call the exterminator.

I managed 3,000 words, 4,000 behind still. But if I can get 3,000 a day, that whittles down the amount by a 1,000 each day. Off to write!!

Hope you have a delightful day.

Terry

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Butterfly on Flowers

May6

My granddaughter didn’t want to go out much yesterday, though we did take one long walk. But afterwards, we did all kinds of crafts and were going to make cupcakes, no frosting. What? No frosting? So I need pick up some and get some groceries. We did a treasure hunt instead. And that was a lot of fun!

They’re talking about us having a repeat of the freeze in February last year and our power grid not holding out, only with temperatures getting too hot this weekend and having the same effect. Everyone involved in the electric grid issues should be fired. And whoever is getting kickbacks for this situation should be in jail.

I threw a bunch of freezer packs into the freezer that I wasn’t using and I’m going to make more ice to add to it, JUST in case we’re without electricity. We did have wild storms last night and that cooled it down considerably this morning, which is great. But they’re expecting mid and upper 90s all weekend and next week. And this is WAY too early to have heat that high.

Okay, I’m off to get to work on writing. I have proofing to do on the Christmas Wolf Surprise so I might not get my word count for Highland Wolf today. It’s also a Christmas story, so maybe “seeing snow” will make me feel cooler as I write and proof.

Have a super fun day!!

Terry

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Spring Flowers and a Butterfly–or Moth

May4

It’s time to do monthly art challenges again. This one was for spring. I took the photo of the moth? Butterfly? At Disney’s butterfly exhibit.

Good day on getting my steps in again yesterday, even got 3,000 words on the story, finally!!!!! I’ve been either taking care of grandkids or too sick to think with this head cold, and I managed to at least be only 3,000 words behind instead of 4,000. I need to try and get another 3,000 today if I can.

I’m off to work! Have a delightful day!

Terry

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Mustard Butterfly

Jul24

Well, I started the Christmas novella yet again, but it still isn’t want I want. lol. Four different starts. I don’t usually do this. I usually just have an idea, eventually, and run with it and get stuck along the way. *sigh*

So I’m taking care of both kids this afternoon. I need a baby swing. I need some safety scissors for my granddaughter. Her preschool teacher says she needs practice cutting out shapes. Soooo, Grandma is going to practice with her if I’m not walking baby the whole time. lol

We’ll find shapes around the house, trace them, and practice cutting. Maybe work on our rainbow sewing project and paint a giraffe rainbow colors. She loves everything rainbow, so everything she does, she has to make rainbowish.

Okay, I’ve got to get some stuff done before they get here. Hope you all have a fun-filled weekend!!!

I’ve got to figure out this story. I even watched two Christmas movies to try and get in the mood. *double sigh*

Terry

Butterfly, Butterfly

Nov29

The 2nd photo is the original I took walking along the cliffs of a beach in San Diego. I loved how the butterfly was white on white and how the background was perfectly blurred to set them off in-camera. The first version is the hand-painted version. I painted the background, flower, butterfly, then added some Heather the Painter overlays–veils and a high key overlay.

At 3:30, I was coughing my head off again and got up and was on the computer for about an hour, and then went back to bed and was thinking about Christmas Cougar Calamity. How come they had to stay on the North Shore for Christmas? And then, after trying to figure this out for weeks, I had it! Could I remember it?

I laid awake with scenes rolling through my head. Shoot! I had to write it down.

I needed to sleep. It was 5 am already and the dogs would want to go out soon. I wasn’t coughing.

I had to write it down because if I didn’t, I would forget it. The story won out. I wrote until 5:30, I think, and then I turned off the light and closed my eyes, thought about the story some more, drifted off, woke at 6, Max was stirring and fussing. But I was soooooo tired, so sunk into my pillow, not coughing and yes, I could have easily gotten up, but I suspected if I just stayed in bed, if I ignored the dogs, I might really sleep.

At 8:15, I woke. I was shocked. I knew I was tired after nights of not sleeping and I really needed that. I never sleep that late unless I’m sick. But the good news is I don’t have COVID-19, just a bad cold.

The bad news is, with the way our infection rates are going and hospitals are filling to capacity, no one is safe.

We had 5 inches of rain! I just brought in my basil plant. It’s supposed to be 30 degrees in the morning. I’ve never grown it before, not sure it will make it inside, but it’s potted with another plant that has to be indoors when it’s cold, so we shall see. At least, if it survives, it will be easy to reach to cut and use in meals! And my house has a hint of basil fragrance.

I turned in my proofing of The Wolf Wore Plaid yesterday.

Have a great day! I think we’re getting sun today. I’m off to write!

Terry

Birds and Butterflies

Jul23

Giant yellow swallowtail. Pelicans? I included the before of the bird picture also to show what a difference it made. The swallowtail is recent, the pelicans were at a zoo in Omaha and no, I haven’t been going to zoos of late. These are all old pictures I’ve never shared. It’s fun taking a ho-hum picture and making something new and interesting out of it.

We were supposed to have 80% rain yesterday, we had none. So today, no rain. Tomorrow, rain. A system in the Gulf might bring us rain. We’ll see. I didn’t get to capture them, but we had some beautiful thunderheads.

I couldn’t write yesterday because of little one. I went over and had dinner with them, so I only managed 349 words on the book. Today, I will have to do better!

I have a hummingbird visiting the hyacinth bean flowers. Who would ever have thought! I haven’t been able to capture it either. I was about a foot away from it the other day, camera in the house. lol

Have a super, great day!!! And stay safe!

Terry

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Tag Archive | butterfly

Butterfly in Abstraction

Purple Phlox and the Butterfly

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly

Butterfly Beauty

Butterfly and Flowers

Butterfly on Flowers

Spring Flowers and a Butterfly–or Moth

Mustard Butterfly

Butterfly, Butterfly

Birds and Butterflies