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Mary Ellen
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Politics. Birds. Watercolor. Random stuff. Postcarding keeps me sane.
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Sunshine on another cold and cloudy day.
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15 #Flowers #Daylily
A bright yellow daylily against a dark background. The petals are heavily frilled on the outer edges and there is a hint of green along their center lines. The stamens have an orange cast to them. To the left of the flower are several unopened buds.
December 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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It's currently 3°F here, not including wind chill, and I need a little ray of sunshine and hope. Day 14 #ArtAdventCalendar #Flowers
In a sunny field surrounded by spiky green leaves, a single coreopsis flower and small closed bud are standing. The flower is bright yellow with many petals, toothed at the edge, and a tightly clustered center similar to a sunflower center but much smaller. The bud to its right glows as it faces the sun.
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar
Day 13
#BlueSkyArtShow #FavoriteThings
Sending cards to friends and family makes me 😊. Favorite #flower sent to my sis-in-law for her birthday.
#InkAndWash
An ink drawing of a zinnia. The flower is unpainted except for a light gold on the stamens. The arched background is pink glitter paint.
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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A frosty start to the morning today. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 12
A twig from a pine tree covered in hoar frost, small feather-like crystals along each needle and catching the sunlight. The snowy background also catches the sun, seen between ribbons of grey clouds.
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A page from a reverse coloring book using Zentangle. This book kept me occupied while I recovered from surgery. Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar
Three overlapping Monstera type leaves are colored in small sections of color. Each color was then filled with a different Zentangle pattern.
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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After posting withered apples yesterday, it seems only fair to highlight #AppleBlossoms today. Same tree, about a month later.
Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar
On a sunny day, small branches with dark green leaves and white blossoms, some beginning to lose petals, glow against the lighter green background.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The apples that "survived" the winter. April, 2025. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 9
Surrounded by small, intersecting bare branches are two very shriveled spheres. The larger one in the foreground resembles a brain with reds and blacks scattered on the surface. The smaller apple behind it is more degraded and mostly black. Some small new buds are visible on the ends of a few branches.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A page from my sketchbook. Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolor painting of a tube of Daniel Smith Cobalt Teal Blue paint. Below, a line and wash sunflower with the petals in yellows, ochres, and purple/grey, and the more vibrant center in yellows, oranges, dark brown, and green.
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Amazing pattern and texture on a Poplar #tree trunk. Day 7. #ArtAdventCalendar
A small section of a rather narrow tree trunk. The trunk is white on the right side which is in the sun, and more grey on the shady left side. Random diamond shapes, raised and a medium brown with a vertical rust colored line, are scattered across the trunk.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a tribute to a dear friend, Joe, whose memorial service is today. Not great art, but the story is in Alt text if you're curious.
#Labyrinth #RIPJoe
Our friend, Joe, was fighting a battle against a brain tumor, and an insistent voice in my head told me to paint a mini version of the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth for him. The background is painted to resemble bricks in varying colors of browns, rusty reds, yellows, and buffy beiges. The simple labyrinth was inked on top of that. The 4 corners are based on a recurring theme in the stained glass windows in the Church-a red cross with a white intersection surrounded by 4 blue squares with diamonds inside each square. Unknown to me at the time, Joe was a labyrinth fan and actively looked for ones to walk in his traveling days. He now had one at hand, literally, for his use during his last year on earth. His memorial service is today. RIP Joe, a true giant among men.
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Early morning travels
#Sky
##BlueSkyArtShow
A cloudless sky with a soft gradient from purple-grey at the top to off white at the horizon. The left side is framed with a silhouette of a tree top-bare branches and a few remaining leaves. In the center is bright pink-orange chem trail and jet, reflecting the color of the unseen rising sun.
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Jimsonweed seedpods, open and ready to share their seeds. #ArtAdventCalendar day 5
Spiky brown seed heads in various stages of opening. Some are open at the top, revealing the dark seeds inside. One is just starting to open and is catching the sun's rays, making it appear a light beige. All look ferocious with their long spikes covering the entire outside.
December 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Dark-eyed Junco for Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar #Birds
A small bird perched on bare branches. The top 2/3 of the bird are grey, nearly all the same color with a slightly darker head. The underbelly is white, the beak is a soft pink-peach, and the eye is black. Despite such a nondescript description, Juncos are very cute and have such personality.
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3. Shortly after inauguration day, I was devastated by the damage happening around us so I painted a very blue neuographic piece to reflect my mood. It left me dissatisfied, so I added marks in
white to to help balance it with some hope. #lineandwash #neurographicart
Various shades of blue and purple watercolor fill a paper inside of sqiggly black lines forming random shapes. The intersection are curved to soften any sharp corners. The same painting as on the left but many of the spaces have varying white pen marks which brighten the mood of the piece.
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A lovely female Northern Cardinal catching the last rays of the winter sun. #ArtAdventCalendar #Birds
On a scrubby pine branch, a perched cardinal is facing left in 3/4 angle. The bird is a mix of reddish orange on her beak, around the eye, the top of her crest, outer wing feathers, and suble touches on her breast against a pale yellow olive body and back of her head. Her eye is dark as are the feathers around her beak and part of her wing.
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Lazing on a Sunday afternoon...
A Map #Turtle basking in the #Warmth of the sun. #BlueSkyArtShow
A turtle enjoying the sun on a partially submerged log. The photo is taken at a low angle so the top of the shell is sunlit. The head, body, and legs are visible and are dark green with lighter green lines making patterns. The two right legs straddle the log on one side of the log and a small part of the front left leg is visible on the other side. The log and underside of the turtle are also reflected in the still water.
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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A #small Rubyspot damselfly balances on a leaf. #BlueSkyArtShow
A Rubyspot damselfly arches its body in a U shape on a slender green leaf. Its wings are folded above the body with the tell-tale red spot closest to its thorax.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Marsh Marigolds and their #bright color is such a welcome sight in early spring. #BlueSkyArtShow
Small, low growing flowers with 5 petals and spiky stamens, the vivid yellow Marsh Marigold cluster glows against their dark green leaves.
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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A just past full #moon rising in the #Evening over a neighbor's #barn. #BlueSkyArtShow
Seen through a tangle of tree limbs, the full moon is rising just above the rooftop of a large red barn.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography #Flowers
Blowing in the wind...
Against a background of fading greenery, small white seedheads are gently blown off their flowerhead.
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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How many Starlings can fit #inside the birdbath?
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Birds
A concrete birdbath is filled with Starlings. The dozen or so birds are facing in different directions and water drops are flung everywhere as they empty the bath of water.
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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A #vertical lift bridge between Houghton and Hancock in the #UpperPeninsula of #Michigan #BlueSkyArtShow
Spanning the river below, a bridge with two uprights and strong cables to lift the adjoining roadway when needed to allow boats to continue their journey.
October 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#Vertical #BlueSkyArtShow
The tops of trees with various fall colored leaves against a blue sky, looking up from the ground.
October 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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#Glow #BlueSkyArtShow #Milkweed
A milkweed seedpod catched the sun on the individual seeds and their delicate tendrils.
October 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The sun makes a soft #Glow in a shady cove.
#BlueSkyArtShow
A woodland cove with a small stream. The sun is lighting the stream as it tumbles over rocks making the center if the photo glow while the outer edges remain in the dark.
October 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM