At La Mancha restuarant, Austin, Texas
Alphabet: Weekly Photo Challenge
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Category Archives: Art
Texas Star Barn
On my way home from the Texas Quilt Museum in La Grange, I stopped to photograph this barn. It was yet another grey day! Eventually I’ll revisit the barn on a day with blue skies.
Watercolor Snails
After a six-month hiatus due to arm pain issues, I started sketching again. I sketched a snail and then decided it would make a good subject for me to teach myself how to paint with watercolors.
Purple snails actually exist: Janthina janthina. Mine don’t look anything like any real snail, but that’s okay with me.
Childhood’s End: Fiction Friday
The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Jean L Hays
Childhood’s End
Sarah hadn’t been to the coffee shop in years, had almost forgotten the window. It was her first commission, while still in her teens. She had been ecstatic. A professional artist! I’m on my way!
And she was on her way – to being poor. She was shocked to discover how many people wanted fine art at garage sale prices. She left behind her childish fantasies of overnight success.
Hard work, hard years; they all led to now. Like the colorful light streaming through the stained glass, it was only after major transformations that the beauty of her adult life resulted.
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.
Ornamental Ironworks
The garden fence at The Quilted Skein in La Grange, Texas.
It's a long story ... 