Black Feather Farm

I've been wanting a vintage horse lamp for quite awhile... I knew I would know it when I saw it... and it was love at first sight. Now its part of my bedroom makeover, yep its not very girly ....but its plenty horsey !

Decides what she wants to do and does it. I need to live by this cowgirl motto a little more.... My blog posts have been few and far between as of late... I've been away... not anywhere away, I just haven't been writing or doing much artwork. That is until now, the pendulum has swung the other way finally....Life gets busy in a hurry, and gets in the way, but the creative side of me has to be left in the balance of things or I start to feel a bit lost, as I have lately. So I'm hitting the ground running here, and in my studio... I'm ready to get to work on the new things I've been keeping in my thoughts.... ready to resume my creative writing and almost ready to launch my new "cause" blog. I love it when motivation comes in to roost and the creative energy flows... it is so strange that I feel like I have been away..... The photo for this post is another of the same cowgirl and horse as my new background, from my collection.

Still learning to use my Nikon camera. These photos were taken at the Jenks Oklahoma Aquarium this week. The automatic settings are a big help to me right now, but I will have to wean myself off of them if I am to advance and really see what this camera can do.....

Sometimes birds build their nests in wonderfully safe sheltered places...but when those places, like the attic of a house under construction, is going to be closed up to finish it, the nest has to be moved simply to save them. We could not get the mama bird to go to the relocated nest, so they came home with me. I cared for them for 24hrs. Because I work full time, they had to be taken to a wildlife care facility we are lucky enough to have in our area. So the darling starlings, will be raised and returned to the wild when they are ready.

I seem to be switching horses midstream a lot lately.... but it was after careful consideration, it had to be, because I loved my job at the police dept. I decided to apply for a job at the Fred Jones Jr Art Museum as a security guard. I was offered a position and there I am. I now spend my days watching over the likes of Fury {the black marble horse sculpture}, Renoir{ blurry because no flash is allowed}, Gauguin, Monet and Van Gogh. One of my favorite people at the museum is the sweet, easy to like gal who works the front desk. In the course of one of our conversations we started talking about one of the art centers in town. She teaches there part time for extra income and I mentioned I would love to do that. She said they were desperate for teachers.... thus the domino effect. Change "one" thing in your life and that leads you down a new path... and another thing is presented to you, and so on, and so on. I will find out about the teaching this week, but it occurred to m...

The death of Elizabeth Taylor brings about the end of an era of true Hollywood icons. National Velvet is, and always will be one of my most favorite movies. Just a girl when it was filmed, before she became a motion picture siren, when Hollywood had true glamor and mystique. All of those things are gone and now, and she is too...but she will never be forgotten. I'd sooner have that horse happy than go to heaven." -- Velvet Brown in NATIONAL VELVET.