Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Caterpillar Photography  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. The unending summer heat in Texas is dragging us all down. The garden is burned up, the trees have to be deep watered constantly and we are now not mowing because the only way the yard will survive is not mowing low. Terry has been using the deep water probes moving them throughout the yard so no water is lost through evaporation using our sprinkler system.  I am waiting for a reminder letter from our HOA to mow. The endless days of 105-110 degrees (feels like 5-10 degrees higher with the humidity) curtails outdoor activities, including swimming after 2 pm. or even being outside to walk in the evenings at seven when the temps are still 107 outside. The heat and closeness in the house with drapes closed to bar the western sun, makes...

Cypress Spring Roses by L Pace    © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 The Dark of Day   Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Make sure you check out Daily Paintings for $100 each. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”  Walt Whitman Some mornings I think my head is going to explode if the TV is on and hubby is watching it... all the 'news' of the day, or should I say yesterday or last week. He watches You-tube for news. ??  Anyone can say anything and put it up on you-tube. Actually any newscaster can create a factious story and put it on the 'regular' news.  I have been overfilled with politics already and we are not even in the last stretch of the election for Nov 2020.  The media has the world painted black as doomsday between the ongoing negative rhetoric of the sky is falling and our nation is failing. Only...