Autumn is here

Autumn is here. Today it´s cold and windy – no, make that stormy what with wind forces up around 5 and 6 – and the tip of my nose resisted warming up no matter how many cups of hot tea I drank whilst painting this little water color of a tree this morning. The trees

Squirrel Appreciation Day

  Today is the International Squirrel Appreciation Day, and how better to celebrate it than by sharing with you some of my favorite photos I´ve shot over the years in a near-by park. Here´s a way to show your appreciation for these lovely animals: go for a walk in your nearest park, forest… and deposit

It came, sniffed and gobbled up…

    It´s been a long time since I could go out for a walk, over 5 weeks now that I have been battling an infection of my sinuses. I normally don´t run to the doctor, so in the beginning, I waited for two weeks to see if it would get better. It didn’t. So,

Squirrels, Squirrels, Squirrels!

  To be perfectly honest with you – I just looooove squirrels! 🙂 Near to where I´m living is a huge park where I can watch these sweet little climbing artists running up and down the trees, trying to catch one another. As I´m sure you know, now´s the time that squirrels are really busy

Animals

      A pair of gerbils in a coconut         gerbil   gerbils                                                                   guinea pigs    In the Mood for Beatrix Potter                                      

Sketching Squirrels…

Last weekend I´ve been feeding some squirrels in our near-by park and tried to “catch” them by quickly drawing them, while they were busy cracking nuts;)