Thursday Art & Dinner Date! ... Words for 2024

 Words for 2024

My first word is travel as I am leaving in January for Thailand, Singapore and Australia.  I will be traveling for 16 days:)

Family

 Son and his Wife

 Daughter

 

Granddaughter and her boyfriend

Granddaughter and her fiancé

My FH (someone asked once what FH stood for ...  it is a nickname which will remain personal) :) 

Friends

These are my active friendships here at home.  I have many more friends from my past that I am still in contact with, but we don't see each other often.  And then, of course there are my blogging friends, one of which I will be meeting in Australia and others that I hope to meet with sometime in the future :)

Last but not least, the year 2024 is an election year here in the USA.  An election that is tearing our country apart between ...

A man who fights for the working class in our country ...

Joe Biden

and a man who would be king (so much for democracy :( )

I don't doubt that as soon as I post this I will think of many other words that fit the occasion, but for now this is it ...

Andrea @ From the Sol 

Thursday Art & Dinner Date! ... Cookies

COOKIES

 

I don't have much to share today.  I still have a room full of presents to wrap and time just seems to be flying away. 

But, I do want to wish you all a Wonderful  Holiday Season.

This years Christmas Card ...

Front 

Inside with names removed ...

Back ...

Andrea @ From the Sol

Thursday Art & Dinner Date With Rain ... Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights 

                                                   

   Just a few Christmas lights from over the years,  I know I have many more, but no time to do the search.  Wishing you all a joyous Christmas Season ...

Andrea @ From the Sol

Thursday Art Day and Dinner Date ... Stranded in Snow

Stranded in Snow

Izzi was a snow lovin' dog and we had plenty of deep snows when we lived on the lake ...

The pictures below are from Public Domain as my pictures of this day are all slides ... I worked in downtown Chicago and was stranded there until the next day when they finally got the trains running.  However when we got home no one could come pick us up at the train so we had to walk about two miles on the streets that were plowed .  My neighbor was with me and he had to stop at a store on the way home because he had to buy milk for his new born baby.  It was quite a harrowing experience.

So far nothing since has come close to this ... as I recall we had 20+ inches of snow dropped between when I left for work that morning and when I was supposed to be going home that evening  :(

I love snow, but this was a bit much.  Hope you all are home safe and warm ...

Andrea @ from the Sol

Thursday Art & Dinner Date! ... Pockets

 Pockets 

I chose to use the "pockets" in Marsupials.  Technically, the pockets in Marsupials are referred to as pouches, so I am stretching the definition a little for the purpose of this post :)

Kangaroo Mom and Joey (pastels with a digital

background)

Koala Bear Mom and Joey (water color)

It is the first time in awhile that I have had time to sit down and enjoy creating my own art.  This was fun ... 

Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving and a fun weekend.  

We are now buried in our first layer of snow with below freezing temperatures ... Brrrrrr ! Already looking forward to Spring 😁

Andrea @ From the Sol

Thursday Art & Dinner Date ... Landscapes

 Landscapes 

Watercolor of Maroon Bells in Colorado

This and the next two pictures is Lake Michigan

Most of these pictures were taken in the Chain of Lakes State Park which was just a short distance from where I lived on the lake.  This just barely scratches the surface of all the landscape pictures I have taken over the years.  I am sure I will run across some that I should have included, but for now this will have to do.  Today is Thanksgiving and I have much to be thankful for including all of my blogging friends who I enjoy and admire immensely.  Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it and to those who don't, it is a good day to stop and give thought to all that you have to be Thankful for ... Be well, be happy and stay warm 😊

Andrea @ From the Sol