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I often paint on cotton canvas but have a new 12 x 12 inch oil-primed linen canvas I will be using to paint these beauties. Sometimes the tulips tend to turn out on the warm-side on the oil-primed linen. The challenge for me will be to keep the cool/hot-pink color in these beauties.

Ever since I went snowboarding in Wisconsin Saturday in 5 degree F. temps, I've been suffering with a cold and fever.  But today I feel on the mend.  Still weak but the worst is over.  Anyway, hot oatmeal seemed like a nutritious energizing option on this cold winter morning.   I just took what I had in the kitchen, some carrots, ginger, brown sugar, and steel-cut oats.  I also sliced some oranges on the side and added raisins, cardamom, and milk, to the hot oatmeal.   I have to admit, it really hit the spot!  I feel good now. :D

I am just getting around to some pictures I took last summer and spring that I have wanted to put to paper.  Here is speed painting of lilacs in blue vase.  The lilacs bloom in May and sometimes April in Chicago.  But in Idaho they don't bloom til end of May or June.  It's really high elevation and farther north.  That's why.