Honey

Oil on wood panel    (sold)

A jar of honey from our bees and three Honeycrisp apples from our trees.

Three eggs for Breakfast

Oil on wood panel

Two beautiful dark brick red French Marans eggs and a little white Icelandic pullet egg. Buy your eggs directly from a the farm if you can. They’re the freshest, best tasting eggs and the chickens are usually raised more humanely, being allowed to live freely to express all of their chickenness .

South Shore Lake Superior, Early Spring

Oil on canvas    

I love Lake Superior any time of the year. In this painting, the afternoon light brightens the brown stone along this south shore beach. The air was crisp and moist that day with a few ice remnants remaining on the beach. If you didn’t look at the leafless trees along the shoreline, you were left with the illusion of a warm summer’s day.

Icelandic Flock, Winter Rut
 
Oil on canvas     (sold)

I observe the growing lambs all summer long, taking notes as to which ones are excelling in the flock. It is then when I start making my ram and ewe-pairing selections, already planning for next years lamb crop.   November 1^st the rams are turned out with their breeding groups, by December’s end all of the ewes will be bred. When winter finally takes hold, life for us slows down just a bit as new life grows in each of them.