Paint Party Friday - Orchid and Vase

Thanks to Kristin and Eva for being such gracious hostesses week after week. What a great party. We've even survived a blog outage this weekend!

I saw this beautiful vase in the newspaper shortly before Mother's Day, it's made from lucite by artist Cec LePage. It inspired today's work.

Remember to check out the other Paint Party Friday contributions this week!

Blogger Outage!

Wow, I can't believe blogger has been out for so long, I felt a bit lost this morning, a bit off schedule! Hopefully, the problem won't recur anytime soon.

Here is some spring bloom I snapped yesterday, while out walking. Yes, it's that time of year when everything's blooming.

Goose

Blogger seems to have lost a bit of this post during a recent outage, so I'm re-creating it as best I can:

I took a photo of this lone goose walking around the mall last week. Well, I guess he could always fly back to the pond.



My mom and I have a doctor appointment today, just touching base, as we haven't seen him in awhile. Hopefully, he won't give us anymore tests to do.

I heard a man at the gym fell off his bike during spin class. The ambulance was there in 4 minutes. Hope he's ok.




And here's a display of pure courage (wow):

man vs moose in sweden (the original)

Lunch on the run

Here's my lunch yesterday. I was at a hardware store around lunchtime and there was a hotdog stand outside. I decided to have a german sausage on a bun with my favourite toppings for $4. That would be sauerkraut, ketchup, relish and (honey) mustard. I would normally share it, but I was alone so what could I do, I ate the whole thing!




Here's a funny video you might enjoy:

Kung Fooled

And can you believe they are doing this:

Newest CN Tower attraction: Take a walk on the outside

Creative Tuesdays - Purple

Welcome to Creative Tuesdays. This week's theme is 'Purple' and I decided to do a purple eye for the occasion. I had a few different purple ideas and shared them at Paint Party Friday and Sundays Sketches these past few days. One was a purple sunset and the other was Mother's Day orchids.

Well, it's time to go see what everyone else did this week.

Sunset at the North Pole

Someone emailed me this beautiful photo entitled 'Sunset at the North Pole'. I don't know if it really is, but I enjoyed it anyway.



Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day. L made me a pretty watercolour card and got me some watercolour pads and an acrylic pad on behalf of the family. We had lunch with M's mother and some of the extended family members, then we took some gifts over to my mom's later in the afternoon. K drove us to a nearby Starbucks for their half-price Frapuccino promotion. I think my mom was a bit nervous, but she declared him a confident driver. It was really busy at Starbucks, but we all love the whipped cream topping on the drinks.

Later that evening the four of us decided to go to a Japanese restaurant that L really wanted us to try. She had been there with some friends recently. The bento boxes were really good and we couldn't finish all the food. I watched the rest of the Amazing Race Finale while the others went to play some tennis. It was a full day.

Sunday Sketches - Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day and welcome to Sunday Sketches. I did a purple orchid arrangement largely because Creative Tuesdays is having a purple challenge and I got carried away trying a few different ideas. I thought I would share this one here for Mom's Day.

Time to go see what everyone else did!