Prospect Bay, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn.

Prospect Bay, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. I’ve been thinking a fair bit about green, ever since taking a walk by the brook...

By the Brook, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. Walking by the brook I see Spring in patches of brilliant green. It’s soft and inviting....

In painting, there’s a lot to be said for taking a second look. And a third and fourth and so on. Until it feels completely right. It’s...

BIG: 9 April 2011 , originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. I was able to work on this BIG abstract painting on Saturday. It was quiet in...

Yesterday my friend Brian came by and, noticing the new direction in my recent paintings, asked if I thought working on the big painting...

Well, maybe, possibly, it could be I am not going to do anything else to this BIG painting.  I went in last Saturday afternoon planning...

This morning I woke to find a light dusting of snow on the ground and the loons were singing wildly on the lake. The snow was a surprise....

I’m pretty much back in the groove of being home now. I even knew where I was when I woke up this morning. It does still feel a little...

One reason my visit to NYC was so pleasant was the easy commute into the city from where Tamar, Dan and Damian live now.  They moved in...

After a long day hanging around airports in NY and Philadelphia (because of flight cancellations and delays due to fog), I was able to...

Yesterday I went to Guerra Paint to get some supplies. An amazing store. Rows and rows of beautiful colors in little bottles. I wanted...

I’d forgotten how much I love to ride the subway.  When I first moved to Manhattan back in 1960, the subway was 10 cents a ride.  And I’d...

So now I am in New York, checking it out. It’s changed a lot since I lived here. Still very noisy, busy, crowded, maybe more so.  I left...

One of the (many) highlights of my visit to Memphis was the tour of Graceland.  Elvis and rock and roll is what I grew up on.  We called...

Memphis has a wealth of museums and interesting places to see, things to do.  On Saturday morning, I was given a tour of the town.  Our...

After a long day hanging out in airports because of missing a connecting flight in Newark (because of delays leaving Halifax because of...

IMG_0501, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. For a long time I’ve been wanting to capture the sounds my boots make on different kinds of...

January 29, 2011, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. I live in a place where the mailboxes are a fair distance from my house and on a...

“Chance Meetings”; 60″ x 84″, originally uploaded by leyaevelyn. As of this morning, I have shipped off six boxes of paintings to...