5-31-2025 Quirky Girls...Glow In the Dark Petunias...

#sketchaday 

#quirkygirls #toniburtinspired

DD and grands

gifted me with some 

glow in the dark petunias!

5-30-2025 Quirky Girls

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#quirkygirls #toniburtinspired

5-29-2025 Quirky Girl

#sketchaday #todayspainting 

#minimoleydaily E29may2025 

#toniburtinspired

5-28-2025 Quirky Girl

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#minimoleydaily #28May2025 

#QuirkyGirl #toniburtinspired

5-27-2025 Quirky Girl...

#sketchaday #quirkygirl #toniburtinspired 

Drawn and painted with my non-dominant hand...

5-26-2025 Birds...Quirky Girls...Memorial Day...

#sketchaday #minimoleydaily 

#sketchesformygranddaughters

#whitebreastednuthatch 

#bluejay

#sketchaday #minimoleydaily

#ToniBurtInspired #QuirkyGirl

For this sketch

I used my non-dominant hand...

I love how she turned out!

Quirky Girl #1...

Quirky Girl #2...

Memorial Day

Remembering those

who have sacrificed themselves

for our country and freedoms...

THANK YOU!!!

5-25-2025 RIP Linda...Loomis...Zinn...

#sketchaday #awesomeartschool 

#funfabdrawingclub #RIPLindaL

#Loomis 

Still working at learning Loomis method

of drawing portraits and faces...

practice, practice, practice...

David Zinn inspired...

I love all his street art characters!

https://zinnart.com

5-24-2025 Little Lulu...New Restaurant...

#sketchaday #minimoleydaily 

#LittleLulu

DH and I tried a newly opened restaurant

this past week...

was good!

5-23-2025 Flora and Fauna...

My birdbath

is like the airport in Atlanta...

not a minute goes by

before another bird lands here.

This water bath

attracts WAY more birds

than my feeder ever did!

Birds of all sizes, shapes and species.

It makes me so happy!

Nature never disappoints.

#sketchaday #goldfinch #minimoleydaily

#sketchesformygranddaughters

5-22-2025 Laughing Again...Beauty In Nature...In Music...

#laughing...again...

Beauty in nature...

And looking up

I see a sky dog

a wraith

an anomaly

a sign

of light in the darkness

Thank you, dear granddaughter

for you gift of beautiful music

at this school year's'

final orchestra concert!

Thank you for all your early morning practices

and all your hard work

to learn the music!

We are so proud of you!

Can't wait to hear you play trumpet

in the band next year!

5-21-2025 Laughing...The World Is Worlding...

#minimoleydaily #sketchaday

#awesomeartschool #funfabdrawingclub

#karencampbellinspired

#bridgetbruceinspired

The World Is Worlding...

Topsy-turvy

Bad is now good

And being good 

Kind, compassionate, empathetic

is now bad

They have total control

Even over my own body

And I have no control whatsoever

No matter what I say or do

It does not matter

And others won’t listen to me

Or believe me

Which is very triggering to me

Making me feel helpless and hopeless

As I did during my childhood years

Jesus also spoke out 

About being kind, compassionate 

Loving and truthful

And look where it got him...

Crucified

By the MAGA of his day

Today empathy is called weakness

Kindness and compassion are called ‘woke’

And met with sneers of derision

And violence

I feel extreme sadness for my country

And what it has become...

It’s a effin shit show

That the rest of the world laughs at

An alternate reality in which

I no longer choose to live.

Every single day

We are bombarded with more

Power grabbing, greed, hate

Misinformation, deceit, lies

And when the truth is spoken

They call it ‘Fake news’ 

or ‘woke’ or ‘DEI’

Again, it has become a shit show

That the rest of the world

Laughs at shaking their heads

And they no longer trust us

And decades of good will and diplomacy

And strong allies

Are now gone for several lifetimes to come

While dictators take their place

I cannot understand why

the cult of the orange menace

MAGA

Can’t see what’s really going on

While the rest of the entire world does:

Fascism

Authoritarianism

Oligarchy

The end of democracy and freedom.

Every day we are inundated with

New ways to disregard

Freedom, democracy,

Our constitution and the

Rule of law

So the rich leaders can get richer

And the working poor get poorer.

I have cried enough tears

I’m all cried out

I’m done speaking out

Fuck this shit show

At this point

All I can to is laugh at this circus

With the orange clown in charge,

And choose not to live in his world

His reality

But I will choose to live

in my own little world of otherness...

A world of kindness, love 

Compassion, truth and joy.

I’m done.

I’m done putting on a smiling face

When I’m crying inside

I’m going back to laughing for real

Instead of crying about

this shit show of a circus government

run amuck

And I’m going to enjoy my life again

And reclaim my joy and peace

Rowing my boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life if but a dream/nightmare

Wake up.

Poem by Me

5-21-2025

I'm stepping away from the line of fire...

#minimoleydaily #sketchaday

#awesomeartschool #funfabdrawingclub

#karencampbellinspired

#laughingontonedpaper

5-20-2025 Abstract Portrait #3...

#awesomeartschool #abstractportrait

#criedmeariver

#pinterestimspired

I cry for my country

and what we have lost.

5-19-2025 Whimsical Abstract Portrait #2...Dear One's Birthday Visit...

#sketchaday 

#WhimsicalAbstractPortrait 

#YvetteStAmantinspired 

#monochromaticpalette

#minimoleydaily

#71stBirthday #DearFriend

Our dear friend Steve

came to visit us on his birthday!

He taught us to play the card game "Golf"

and we took him to see pelicans

at the Mississippi River

and antiques at the

Antique Archeology stores

from the tv show

"The American Pickers."

It was such a blessing to see him again.

The world is a better place

with him in it!

5-18-2025 Young Girl Laughing...Grands

#sketchaday 

#awesomeartschool #funfabdrawingclub 

#karencampbellinspired 

#YoungGirlLaughing

Grands...