I promise I have not been lazy! I actually spent a little over a week painting the biggest painting of my life....8 feet by 20 feet.....for a background for my church. It was fun and painful, at least on my poor back. But, it's over and now I can concentrate on my own stuff again. I'm in the process of a commission from a long, lost friend of mine of her children, which I am enjoying immensely. But, in between these 2, I did manage to squeeze out 2 little birdies on wood that I'll be putting in my shop at some point in the next few days. I must say, summer is proving to be pretty exhausting between trying to be constructive and also spend good quality time with my sweet girls.

At any rate, we really are having a wonderful summer and I hope you are, too! I'm adding a pix of my seriously white, Irish, spf 60 covered family running down the beach. I thought it was such a kodak moment!

I just had to add this in......look at the size of this blackberry we got at a market today. Don't you just love summer?