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...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 She is Mine! No Painting with this post, only laughter and home schooling and rich remembrances.   by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This morning I was homeschooling my youngest granddaughter and we always have fun. She is a mini me with music, art, and dressing.  I snapped this photo of her ankle resting on mine while she was working her math problems, lost in numbers, and me, finding myself following in love with her more every single day.  BE BRAVE "Be Brave" are her words anytime she is confronting something new or uncomfortable.  They have rubbed off to me considerably. More on my next post about that.  Meanwhile, she is moving forth in her first grade curriculum decently well and anxious about going back to school this fall.  Hopefully this mes...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the Lake." Wallace Stevens Our 'Golden Pond' is in east Texas. Some of the inhabitants were there almost year round and these three were my buddies! They are actually on the pond in the back yard between us and the lake.  Terry and I spent hours walking around our cove and peninsula on the lake. We would always take a morning walk about seven and then again about five. We loved to sit outside every evening and watch the sunset.  "What am I to do? I expect to pass through this world...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever . . . connections are made with the heart, not the tongue." C. JoyBell C. Oh my, this time of the year is hard not to think of cool water and the lake, being lazy on the boat, or sitting out on the swing watching the sunset. Think it is time for a weekend out on Golden Pond.  ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles." I love the entire section of this quote, but did not want to have such a huge quote for the beginning.  Here is the rest of it: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doe...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence." Carl Hiaasen The Golden Pond... Sunset in the winter, no leaves on the trees in this photo. You might say... bare to the light.  We are indeed bare to God's light in our own 'nakedness'. He can see everything inside and out. Rest on that thought a moment and start explaining... or rather praying.  Isaiah 6:8  "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" and I said,...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I hate to hear you talk about all the women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives." Jane Austen, Persuasion The Finger Lake Region of NY is one of our favorite vacation spots. This was taken 9 years ago and it seems like yesterday. I wish you calm and beauty in your life today.  Joshua 24:15  "But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the E...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography Sept 2011  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere." Diana Gabaldon, Out...