“You’ll never get the dog that you want;
you’ll always get the dog that you need.”
- Cesar Milan (the Dog Whisperer)

(The Magical Seasons of Mabel.
A special memorial painting, 2024)

Happy April, FOOLS!
April's calendar picture is "Flowering Lotus" (©2024) and just happens to have a timely quote, in all this madness.
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” ​- Rumi

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#lotusflower #flowertea #rumiquotes #powertothepeople

A woman messaged me out of the blue to find out if this was my work. Sure enough, I drew the "Afghan Girl" from the 1985 Nat'l Geographic around 1990, when I was 16-ish. She got it at a yard sale and thought it might be worth something. 😂 She will pass it down to her son. You never know!

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Power to the people

Whoops! I never was very good at following directions. 😉 #titsup #crosstitch #makeyourownrules

A quick sketch from a photo of one of my favorite people.

I did another flower study. These aren't what I think of as normal flower paintings. They are moody flowers, "les fleurs lunatiques."

Curbside (Susan) 5"x5" oil ©2025.
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Can't stand what's going on out there, so today I'm focusing on what's right in front of me. A quick messy scribble of Ollie, who stares at me like he really really loves me. Silly boy.
#olliecat #inkdrawing #happybirthday

It looks so nice and inviting but it's a Murder Belly