All is Well

Hello Everyone,

Just posting to assure you that all is well here at The Manse. 

Today I am posting Catherine Klein paintings of fruit. These appear to be watercolors, and oh I do like them so much.  I have also posted some tea cups from Pinterest with similar motifs. 

That apple painting in the teacup is almost as good as standing under an apple tree and looking at the beautiful colors. Both the Klein painting and the tea cup painting have a raindrop.

Plums: The kind that have a fog on them before you shine it on your shirt. They look soft and sweet. How did she do that? The plums look juicy and the apples look crisp.

Pretty Grapes:  The artists must have been very observant people, able to concentrate on painting the details of light and shadow on a mass of grapes.

Cherries. Look at the way she painted them to look crisp and hard like real cherries. I can taste them!

Pears

Peaches

Each fruit in the paintings has a different texture, and she painted them all just right. How did she do that? The Pears seem to have that leatherly skin like my Bosc pears, and the peaches are softer. 

When I last posted about my housekeeping progress, I was in the kitchen. I now have one more shelf to clean

 before I move on to the laundry room. 

While cleaning house

 I was remembering Silas

Wegg and the dust mounds!  He

 found hats, shoes. jewelry...and a Will. So far, I have only found an excess of half-used

pencils,erasers and other office supplies.

Housekeeping is a "good work" and like all work, it takes diligence, determination and anticipation of the end result.  It is quite motivating to clean house when someone is coming, but what if no one is coming and no one will notice? Should I clean it anyway?  I think so, because if it is done for the glory of God, and for orderliness

it is not done for nothing.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58

Also, if you live by yourself and there is no one to please, why not please yourself and give yourself a nice, clean place to live.