As winter blends into spring

Allowing these buttery, gorgeous pink, brown and green oil paints to dance together was dreamy! The colors of winter gently mixing into spring....and of cool and warm shades in perfect harmony. When I sit down to paint time seems to stop and the busyness of life magically melts away. There’s really nothing quite like it. It don’t always happen, but it seems the more time I spend at the easel, the more often it happens. I guess that’s not magic, it’s simply that, with more time at the easel, the odds get better, right? What helps you get in that zone?

According to Natasha at Floramere Flowers, Hellebores have a pretty twisted history. And a lot of the myths and legends surrounding them are gloomy at best... In medieval times, hellebores were said to be used by witches to summon evil spirits and to create an ointment that allowed them to fly. Another legend suggests that powered hellebore was used to poison Alexander the Great. It’s interesting to me that these flowers who I see as uplifting signs of spring have such a tragic history, but they are a very toxic, very old species... So happy spring, yay! Don’t eat hellebores!