Another year, another treasure trove

I feel like little Mary in her garden looking at the lush growth around her. Summer is in rich splendor at her feet and she is surveying all that lies before her.
For the first time in my own life, I sense that the work of my hands is good. God is in control and is leading me into fresh territory. He has already laid up treasures in the storehouse of my inner man which are ready to be drawn out. I am trusting nubs of ideas in the understanding that they are the culmination of previous experiences folded into the batter of much time spent learning about the One who created me. Life is layered - not fragmented - when we know the One Who is truly in control. In 2007 I am focusing on honing my writing and art skills by hoeing, watering and studying over this garden daily.

New Year

The beginning of a new year! I have decided on my personal study process for the year but am not decided on how I want to proceed with the artistic ideas. One thing that I am planning to do is to continue to work with this blog and to enter pictures. Uploading pictures will be my greatest challenge because I do not like taking pictures!

This is an image that I was playing with in Paint Shop ProX. I made the image into a brush which I then beveled and layered. I have a love for chickens. I think it must be in my DNA because I've never personally owned chickens. My great-grandmother raised prize winning Wyandotts for many years and I'm thinking that it must be a latent gene which resurfaced in me. I never knew either my great-grandmother or her chickens. They were all long gone before I came along. It is indeed, refreshing to think that there are things that came before me!

As I'm typing this, I'm suddenly getting ideas for further posts. Hurrah, perhaps the muse has settled and I will begin to use this lovely bit of cyberspace landscape reserved just for this Prairie Girl!