This is an original oil painting by Ruth Housley on stretched canvas.

I have finished my autumn scene since it it that time of the year again. 
Autum is one of my favorite times of the year.  I also like spring about as much as the autumn season.

When the leaves will be changing on the trees except not much here in Texas unless you go to East Texas.  The time of the year to have hot chocolate, NFL games as well as college and high school football games.  Time for getting out your sweaters, jackets and for enjoying the cooler weather after the hot summer. Time to make carmel apples, popcorn balls, fruit pies, homemade soups. goulashes and chili. After the leaves fall off of the trees it will be time to rake leaves.  If you have a farm it is time to harvest crops.   
 
Time to think about the holidays coming in a few months.  

Psalms 24:1 "The earth is the Lords; and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwelleth therein."

This is an original oil painting by Ruth Housley on a 16x20 Canvas Panel. I have taken photos of sunsets for many years and love to paint them as well as take photos of them.  This sunset is very bright and looks like one that you would see in Hawaii or some of the islands.

Psalms 24:1 "The earth is the Lords; and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwelleth therein."

This is an original oil painting done by Ruth Housley on cotton stretched canvas. I visited the Rocky Mountains several years ago and took photos of this river. The water was rushing so fast and I am sure it was very cold. We were there after the end of May and school was out for the summer.
We had fun taking hikes to try to find some of the lakes, and took lots of photos.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed painting it.

Psalms 1:3 " And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

This is one of my new paintings called Thailand Parrot Flower.  The botanical name for it is Impatiens psittacina.    This plant was identified at the Royal Botanical Garden Kew in 1901 and was discovered in 1899 in the Shaw States of Burma.  It is only found in portions of Burma and northern Thailand and as such is quite rare.  According to the grower it is very difficult to cultivate and requires a local natural pollinator to produce the seeds.  It also requires very specific soil pH in order to prosper and produce the “blue” coloration.  You can read more about this plant at www.ExoticRainforest.com.

 

This is another of my newest paintings and it is called Blue Jay at Home in Pine Tree.  Blue Jays prefer mixed woodlands, particularly those with clearings.  They are also common in suburban areas and city parks.

 

The big, noisy blue jay is one of the most colorful of the wild birds that have responded favorably to civilization and become common in the shade trees of eastern towns, but it is essentially a woodland creature and is still most abundant in open oak and beech forests.  After breeding, jays gather in flocks that do much to enliven the fall woods with their calls and flashes of blue.

 

The blue jay is about three quarters vegetarian—acorns, beechnuts, and corn being its staple foods.  During summer its diet becomes preponderantly insectivorous.  Jays bury more acorns and beechnuts than they can eat and are therefore important agents in planting oak and beech forests.

 

Their voice is extremely varied:  harsh calls, a trumpeting whistle, a scream like a red-shouldered hawk, a flicker-like call, and a song of soft warbles and twitters.

 

They make their nests in a tree crotch or on branches near the main trunk up about 10 to 15 feet: made of sticks with grass and other softer material at the center to form a cup. 

I did not finished my Angel painting and was not in this newsletter but will send it out probably when I get it finished by the middle part of September.  .Also I am working on another painting of "Rivers of Living Water".

I have been having some problems with my right hand thumb and had it ex-rayed yesterday at the doctor's office.  I had to get blood work done as well while I was there.  I thought it could be arthritus but if it was broken I thought I would not be able to move it but I can move it and it does not hurt all the time.  I must have twisted it or something.  I will find out for sure when the report about the ex-ray is read. 

I have been still painting since I am right handed and it has not caused me to quit painting.  I have taken Tylenol arthritus for the pain a few times but did not want to take it on a continual basis. 

I broke my left wrist back in 2006 and it was so painful when I broke it.  I had to have pins put it about three or four and had to have surgery to get it set back in place.  When it gets cold my left wrist has some pain but I can still do my painting which I am so blessed.