Jane Doe

Original Watercolor Painting





















All of these unusual blue flowers are less than 3mm in size. My favorite artist-My Mom :)... used a combination of lenses to enlarge them in order to paint them. We don't know what the name of the pretty flower is...it may in fact be just a weed?

P.S.
What a pretty weed indeed!

Jane Doe 2007 © Dee

Quote Of The Day

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

Goethe

Quote Of The Day

"No person should be made to feel "put down" by you; avoid hurting other hearts as you would avoid a deadly poison."

Native American Traditional Code of Ethics

Native American Wisdom

Go Forward With Courage

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still;
be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists
-as it surely will.
Then act with courage.

Ponca Chief White Eagle (1800's to 1914)

Indian Rocks Beach

"Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."

Mark Twain

Photo: Renee Baker © 2007

Sunset at Clearwater Beach II

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Emily Dickinson

Photo: Renee Baker © 2007

For a Friend

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

Buddha

Repro: Renee Baker 2002/Ink
Original work: Walter Foster

Quote Of The Day

"While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole."

Hans Bos

Sunset at Clearwater Beach

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."

Buddha

Photo: Renee Baker © 2007

Dance, Dance and More Dance...

"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' th' sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that."

William Shakespeare ~ "The Winter's Tale"
2005/Ink © Renee Baker

Quote Of The Day

"Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over."

Martha Graham

Portrait Of My Son

"The artist has one function ~ to affirm and glorify life."

W. Edward Brown

Pencil 1995 © Renee Baker

Quote Of The Day

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

Vincent Van Gogh

Quote Of The Day

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it."

Martha Graham

Quote Of The Day

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Thomas Edison

Quote Of The Day

"Never regard study as a duty, but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."

Albert Einstein

Quote Of The Day

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

Napolean Hill

Quote Of The Day

"The path that you follow is not about going somewhere, but about coming back to you. Over and over again. Only this time you are awake, to who that is and the life you are living."

Angel Kyodo Williams

Quote Of The Day

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

Albert Einstein

If You Are Feeling Blue...

and don't have anything else to do, do as follows:

1)Turn your speakers on
2)Put your dancing shoes on
3)Click on the link below
4)Dance with me

Banana Phone (Badgerphone)

Quote Of The Day

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

Les Miserables

Quote Of The Day

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote Of The Day

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Victor Hugo