Getting Hot Already

9 X 12 Oil on Canvas Board
$135 includes shipping and insurance in U.S.

In the space of a few days, our weather has gone from frost cold enough to waste all my potato plants to mid eighties to extremely high winds gusting to over 65 MPH. Texas weather is testing us already this year and we are making summer travel plans to head for the mountains. I don't think we'll be gone as long as we were last summer, and we can't go anywhere in July because HOPEFULLY I hope I'll have bushels of tomatos, beans and corn to put up - if it all doesn't burn up or blow away.
Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

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Climb To The Top

This cow was climbing to the top of a ridge to see the cows on the other side. Sometimes the view is better, but not always. Often it's best to stay on the side of the hill and be a little protected.

My friend, Debra, took me around in her Gator yesterday to get morning pictures of live oaks and her neighbor's longhorns. Thanks, Deb! Deb lives about 7 miles from me - and she's a CLOSE neighbor! Here in this part of Texas, I consider anyone that lives within 15 miles of me my neighbor. And in actuality, some are even farther than that. I know a number of people that live in the city that don't even know who is in the house 30 feet from them.

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Galatians 5:14
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Media: oil
Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)
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It's All About the Horns

This big ole longhorn steer belongs to a neighbor across the highway. I don't know if he's competed in any shows, but I suspect he has won his share of ribbons. His horns appear to be award winners.

I e-mailed my friend, Debra, and asked her if she knew he name of her neighbor's big ole black and white steer. This is how she responded:

Well you are going to absolutely crack up!!! Lonnie & Kit started their herd with 4 young steers. They let

each of their (then) 4 grandchildren name them. There is Rusty - red spotted Res.Gr.Champion.

There is Bronco - pretty sure he's the buckskin with blended black shoulders and head.

Then one small grand daughter named the little solid white cute one Snowball. He is now VERY BIG with

lonnnnng sharp horns with black tips and is pretty mean. Course with a name like that I would be, too.

The last grand daughter could not talk at the time of the naming because she was a baby, so they

just called him Baby Steer until she was old enough to decide. Well, she liked the name. So go ahead

put that moniker on that big ol' beautiful black & white longhorn. Tell the whole world just who Baby Steer

is. "Baby Steer" it is!

It has been raining for 2 days in my part of Texas and I have been in and out of it all afternoon without complaint. Despite the fact that it's 40 degrees, I have smiled during every wet minute! The bluebonnets always bloom around my birthday - end of March - but it was beginning to look a little "iffy" as to whether or not we would get a show this year. The seeds germinate late summer, and we did have a nice rain in August that got them up. But all winter the little bluebonnet plantlets have remained small and pathetic, waiting for moisture that failed to come. BUT we have nearly 3 inches in the rain gauge now, and I had to search for my mud boots before I could go feed the horses. (Mike graciously loaned me his.)

I may paint this again with bluebonnets.

Isaiah 61:11
For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
Media: oil on canvas panel
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
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Downhill Cattle Drive

A hot summer day, heading downhill toward another pasture with, hopefully, greener grass. You may draw a parallel with today's economic situation. We must descend to the valley before we climb the mountain.

I painted this from a photo taken by fellow artist Doug Prine. Doug is very generous not only with his talent and teaching, but also with the hundreds of photos he takes. I don't normally paint from photos taken by other artists, but this one was impossible to resist. I am going to paint it again much larger, and probably place the cowboy coming up over the edge of a ridge with a touch of sky visible.

Last week I spent about 30 minutes at the end of friend, Debra's, driveway taking several hundred photos of her neighbor's longhorns. I am particularly fond of their champion steer, Rusty. There were also a number of cows with their younguns and several other steers. I am so fortunate to live in an area with uncountable critter models! I really don't need to travel far from home.

Matthew 20:15
Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?

Media: oil on canvas board
Size: 9 in X 9 in (22.9 cm X 22.9 cm)
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Longhorn Morning

SOLD to a collector in Connecticut

My front pasture gets the prettiest light in the morning. This was last spring when we had green grass and rain. For a Longhorn, this cow is in great shape. And she was nursing a big calf at the time, too. All the cows are in the pasture next door right now, so I don't get to see them much. Ron will let them come over as soon as we have grass, I suspect. But we need rain first - I think that's how it works. And we haven't had significant rain in over 3 months. We are currently under a burn ban and like California, we cringe when the high winds come through. Getting surrounded by grass fires isn't fun. We don't have the pine forests, though - just lots of pasture grasses that burn fast and furious. I keep the yard grass immediately next to the house watered just in case our pasture catches fire. There's not much left to burn though.

Psalm 104:4
He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.
Media: oil on canvas panel
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)
Price: $115 USD

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