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| Tomatoes: How They Were on the Plant Left Side in the Shade, Right Side in the Sun |
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| The Shaded Side - Green |
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| The Side that Faced the Sun |
According to last night's weather forecast, we were supposed to get a thunderstorm and some rain early this morning! We did receive about 10 drops of rain around 2:30 a.m., when I was getting ready for bed, but, then, it stopped and I thought that was that. But, according to M, we did get lightening and thunder and some rain very early this morning! I must have slept right through it! It was cloudy when I woke up, but, the ground was dry.
M was here in the morning to tend to the garden. He removed the tomatoes that were on the plant he gave me. These tomatoes are about an inch in diameter. You can see that they are still green on the sides that were not exposed to the sun and bleached white on the side that did receive the sun's burning rays. I think it is accurate to say that the tomatoes got cooked on the plant! We also harvested a handful of tiny potatoes - there were a total of five and they all fit into the palm of my hand! I boiled them and my daughter and I had them with our dinner!
Daughter and I spent a pleasant afternoon painting! First, we did some water color painting:
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| Field of Poppies (Daughter's Painting on Top) |
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| Field of Sunflowers (Daughter's Painting on the Right) |
- Whatever rain we received
- M tending to the garden
- Painting with my daughter
- Yummy leftovers for our meals
- Today's garden harvest of tiny potatoes and two parboiled tomatoes!
Your paintings are lovely, especially the sunflowers :) X
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules. :)
DeleteI love the sunflowers!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Angela. :)
DeleteLove all the paintings, especially the poppies. Did you do a class or just decide what you wanted to paint?
ReplyDeleteThe tomatoes look very sorry for themselves! I've never seen them bleached white like that before.
I'm glad you had some rain during the night. We're due some for the next few days and are under a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and torrential rain ... we can do with the rain but I hope they've got the 'torrential' part wrong!
Thank you, Eileen; we followed two online tutorials. The field of poppies was based on a photograph the artist took when she was in Italy. I was reminded of Lady Ella's photos of the poppy fields and sunflower fields. :)
DeleteThose poor tomatoes! I'll be composting them.
I hope you receive some rain, but, nothing "torrential".
🙂🙂🙂 You remember my old posts! 🙂🙂🙂
DeleteOf course! I loved those posts. :)
DeleteWhat a shame about the tomatoes and so little rain. Your paintings are lovely especially the sunflowers.
ReplyDeleteYes, I had to compost the tomatoes after I took the pictures for the blog. Thank you for the kind comment about the paintings. :)
DeleteOnce again, I'm impressed with your paintings--both the content and the fact that you could do two on the same day. They look complicated and I would think it would take a while to paint all of that detail. What are you going to do with them?
ReplyDeleteThank you, June. I think each painting took us about 1 - 1.5 hours to do. Partly because we didn't have the same color paints being used in the instruction videos and had to approximate the colors using the paints we had on hand. We would pause the videos until we looked for and blended our own colors and that took time.
DeleteMy daughter is planning to take her watercolor painting up with her; she wants to do a gallery wall. I get to keep the sunflowers; I will probably display them in the family room, where I have something like a gallery wall over the sideboard.
Your paintings are both amazing - I think my favourites are the fields of poppies. That talent & skill as artist runs deep in the family :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary-Lou. We had fun doing them and that's the important thing, isn't it? There was a lot of shared laughter while we painted. :)
DeleteLovely paintings! I love the poppies! It does sound like a fun activity to spend together!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Celie. It was a fun way to spend an afternoon together. :)
DeleteWith energy prices as they are, no doubt it's a boon to pick your tomatoes ready-baked!
ReplyDeleteI agree about daughter's sky but I prefer your flowers... then again, both paintings are superior to anything I would be likely to produce!
There is something to be said about having your tomatoes ready-baked with solar power! LOL.
DeleteThe poppy field and the sunflower field reminded me of the photos you took of the poppies and the sunflowers. :) I showed them to my daughter, after we did the paintings. :)
So frustrating when rain amounts to a few drops when you need it so badly! Your paintings are lovely happy ones. It helps to have a companion to share the experience, otherwise one does not always bother because work calls! We are enjoying good weather, and the sun is helping to ripen the wild serviceberries. I saw a blue jay fly up to a branch and grab a berry on the wing!
ReplyDeleteJust a few drops of rain doesn't really do anything, does it? Apparently, it rained fairly heavily in other areas, just not where I am! We have clear blue skies, today.
DeleteIt is more fun to paint with my daughter! It becomes a shared experience, then. :)
Glad to hear that you are having good weather and the berries are ripening in the sun. The mockingbirds in my garden are resting in the shade with their beaks open because it is 95F right now and they are feeling hot!
I am stunned that it's going to 'cool down' to 87F. I think they would call an emergency if it reached that here! The paintings look amazing. You have such bright, positive looking paintings, thank you for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteThe tomatoes look odd. Do you think that you will be able to grow more traditional ones?
We've warmed up to 95F, this afternoon. :)
DeleteThank you, Lyssa; my daughter and I enjoyed painting the fields of flowers. :)
The tomatoes got "cooked" for the sun! I put them in the compost bin. Hopefully, the rest of the tomatoes I get will be regular, red tomatoes! But, I don't think I'll get the same amount of tomatoes as I did last year!
Too bad about your tomatoes! You and your daughter both have good talent in painting. I love the poppies and the sunflowers equally! Andrea
ReplyDeleteThank you, Andrea. Vegetables and soft fruit don't do too well when the temperatures soar close to 100F.
DeleteSuch beautiful paintings. You are both so talented.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon; it was a fun activity to do together. :)
DeleteAll your paintings are lovely and, yes, your daughter's sky in that one painting is particularly nice :)
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, just a few pitiful drops of rain BUT I see the title of your next post - I'm hoping that changed.
Thank you, Debra. The trick to getting a sky with puffy white clouds on a watercolor painting is apparently to blot the blue painted sky with a wadded up facial tissue while the paint is still wet!
DeleteNo, we didn't get much rain, after all. :(
Oh no :( that was the title of this post. I thought you got some real rain.
ReplyDeleteNo, it was just what passed for summer rain in my area! :D
DeleteWow, your paintings are fabulous. You make it look so fun.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susanne. It was fun to paint with my daughter. :)
DeleteI LOVE your blog!! I don't comment usually but, just had to tell you!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for letting me know! I'm glad to hear from you. But, please, won't you let me know who you are?
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