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I got up this morning and saw this bull in one of the horse pastures.  I decided to take his picture. I imagine this is the first time he's had his photo taken.

I am on the ranch in Idaho this week.  Will be posting some new artwork from my Idaho studio on the ranch. There is a lot of wildlife around.  On a quick stroll, I saw flocks of birds, antelope, and deer, along with the pet cats, dogs, horses, and the cows (all have babies right now). The sky is so big up in the mountains, the moon shines during blue skies. Mountain lupine.  This is what the Karner Blue butterflies must have to survive.  (I posted a painting of one on the blog a couple days ago.)      

Baby chicks from Easter at my parents' farm in Wisconsin. Put your left foot in.  Put your left foot out.  Put your left foot in and shake it all about  Do the hokey pokey and turn yourself about.  That's what it's all about!

I celebrated Easter today with family.  My parents have a farm in Wisconsin.  They had some new baby chicks, just a week old.   My mother and daughter.  Quite the height difference! My mom always has a fun time decorating for the holidays.

So when I first married and moved to a Ranch in Idaho on the Idaho Montana border, I had been working in finance and banking and sales.  But there were no accounting, finance, or good sales jobs in this ranching town in the middle of nowhere.   The internet and online shopping were getting more and more popular and stable.  I saw someone on ebay selling their pet turtle's paintings.  And they're selling for a good sum!  I thought to myself, "If a turtle can paint, then I can too."   The first paintings I sold on ebay - well the very first one was an 8 inch succulent plant that I self taught myself to do.  It sold for...