Yellow and Gray

Yellow and Gray - watercolor

5x7

Wild Sky

watercolor - 5x7

sur le bord de la ville

watercolor - 5x7

Tall Badger Draw

watercolor - 5x7

Our Blue Heaven

Our Blue Heaven - watercolor

5x7

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves - 5x7 watercolors

The Old Man and His Flag

The Old Man and his Flag - watercolor effects using photo essentials 4

Deep in Thought

Detailed watercolor effect using Photo Essentials 4

Blue Forest

Blue Forest - watercolor

A Nap in the Boat

Sunflowers

Sunflowers

Mums

Mums - watercolor altered by Photo Essentials Painter to

look like an oil painting.

The Farm Reservoir

The Farm Reservoir - watercolor

Northwest Scene

Summer Hills

Flower Bed #3

Flower Bed #3 - watercolor

Spring Colored Hills

Spring Colored Hills - watercolor

An Orange Sky

Orange Sky - watercolor

Our Prairie

Our Prairie - watercolor

5x7

Our Grandparent Years

Starting our grandparent years.

Photo Grid photo.

Our Middle Years

Our Middle Years

Photo Grid composition

When We Were Young

Once when we were young.

Using the Photo Grid  app on my android.

The Ride

The story starts at least in parts
On a hot Fourth of July
It was rodeo time, when beer was prime
And peanuts cost a dime
A strawberry roan had set the tone
For the buckingest bronc in line
Lonesome Ed and his brother Fred
Had entered for the longest ride
The strawberry horse had set the course
And threw Ed before he tried
The cowboy next was also vexed
And fell ass over the horses behind
Two more got kicked through the door
And swore they’d tan his hide
But now it was Fred came out of the shed
And climbed on the roan this time
He set his spurs deep in the fur
Of the side winding fish belly horse
The roan took the first dare
And with four feet in the air
Twisted full circle and landed in dirt
Fred grabbed his hat gave the horse a pat
And spurred him deep to the muscle core
The horse was now sore and headed for the door
Of the arena on the rodeo grounds
The ride was done and Fred had won
But now he couldn’t dismount
They went through the door
Fred’s head on the floor and his feet high in the air
The roan didn’t even stop for a mare
They headed across the prairie at a slow canter and lope
Fred learned to ride from the belly side
And became the brunt of rodeo jokes
The horse was sold for a pot of gold
As rodeo stock he fit the mould
Ed left the game someone else could tame
The sunfishing white bellied roan
Fred tired again weeks later it’s said
But his ride was so slow he was dead
Ed and Fred it’s said left the circuit and wed
Twin strawberry blonds instead

©Copyright June 2, 2007 by Terry D. Sutherland

March in Montana

Spring Bouquet

In Her Easter Bonnet

A Boiling Pastel Sky

Where Prairie and Mountains Meet

Hollyhocks

Double hollyhocks - watercolor

5x7

Fall in the Dry Fork

Fall in the Dry Fork - watercolor

5x7

Pink Is In This Year

Baby N is modeling her new pink hat, scarf, and mittens, made

by her Aunt Wendy.