The challenge for February is Sustenance (food & more)

By Lynne Ayers

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” – Nelson Mandela

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many coloured lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Bobi Leutschaft Poitras    I painted this six years ago when my cousin transitioned. This was my first real attempt at faces – now you know why I don’t do faces and why this is in my “paint over” pile! 😂

By Isabelle Utovac    I love how the sky and the sea change every day/ J’aime comment le ciel et la mer changent chaque jour.

By Susan Irving   Here is my submission for the “Changeable”challenge.

My dish mop.  I just never know what kind of mood she will be in from one day to the next. But it is all my fault, either way. 

By Margaret Stewart

Into the Cedars  we go.
Many hot  summer days we went down to our spot 
in amongst the big cedar trees on the land I now live on.
The sounds & sights, rich forest smells. 
Rays of  sunlight & shadows and learning
about North & moss.
Revisiting this spot I now know, the whoosh was a
bird wing. A thump & rustle was a  partridge.
A jack hammer noise a pileated woodpecker.
Ghost sounds were old wood chimes we’d
hear sometimes, tied to a tree, now too tall to reach.

All those come to me as I return summer or winter.
Painting this  scene,  floods me with these fun days .
I have gone through so many changes .
But these woods are still standing  taller & welcoming me.

By Milo Smith    I took these two selfies twelve years apart;  I have changed but the shirt is the same!  More wrinkles and greyer but still me. 

The two house images are before and after the 2023 renovations. 

I have two images of St. Raphael’s.  One aerial shot from the Internet before the fire (not by me – hard to find pre-fire images) and one black and white panorama of the interior from 2018.