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Yachats volcanic rocks, Oregon Coast
Yachats is on the Oregon coast, a favorite place for artists. It is an hour and a half drive north of Coos Bay. We go there as often as we can. The ...
White Rose picture, single white rose blossoms
Well, actually not a single white rose, but two white rose blossoms in a single vase! This reference photo was gleened from an art forum that features ...
Magnolia Flower, Southern Magnolia
During a particularly sad time in our life, while visiting Duke University Medical Center, daily strolls were a required thing to do. To keep things from ...
Picture of a Rose, Purple Rose Picture, Picture of Roses
My good friend Debbie let us have a few of her old style roses. She's our florist. Her shop is called Angelic Haven and she's located on Timberlake Road ...
Yellow Lily, yellow lilly, lily flower
This beauty was one amoungst my many day lilies that are within our front gardens. Not sure the variety, but the sunlight was hitting it just right.
You ...
Sunset
We have beautiful sunsets on Cape Cod, Ma. This sunset was taken on a kettle pond near the National sea shore.
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Don't you love sunset paintings?...
Orange Rose
This was one of my last autumn roses before a killing frost. Took the picture while dew was still present. Hopefully, I can add more rose pictures when ...
Bird of Paradise flower in Jeju
Bird of Paradise in Yeomiji Botanical Garden Jeju South Korea. The gardens were a wonderful place to enjoy the beauty as we slowly walked among the thousands ...
An afternoon at Sunset Beach
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Sunset Beach A State Park is beautiful and interesting even when the tide is out. there are tide pools and interesting cliff formations and walking paths ...
Last of this seasons Golden Roses
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I take pictures of flowers in the garden all year long several times a week. At this time of the year the roses are almost over, and the lilies are just ...
lilies croped ready for painting
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these are the same lilies but have part or all of the back ground taken out...they are ready to use for painting....
I hope you will enjoy painting ...
If you like lilies
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Here I can see many possible paintings. Lilies, iris and roses are my most favorite flowers and I have many of them in my garden.
Here I offer some photos ...
light house and tug boats
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This Bandon lighthouse original I took many years ago, since that time the light house has been restored for visitors, I have some of the modern look,...
oriental tree lily Garden Pleasure
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These are some of the lilies blooming right now. some of these tree lilies can grow to eight feet tall, the tallest of ours so far is just over six ...
more flowers from the garden
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new flowers have bloomed in the past week, and yet more still to open up...
Every year here in Coos Bay there are 5 gardens chosen by the local garden ...
Mingus Park 4
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last set of pictures of this park,,,
everywhere you look there is a painting begging to happen....
enjoy
Mingus Park
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peaceful wonderful pictures to paint...enjoy
mingus park 2
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a favorite place to spend an afternoon wonderful pathways, picnic tables, rest rooms, playground for kids, and endless landscape just begging to be painted...
Front Yard Flower Garden
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These are some of the favorite flowers, making the yard smell soooo good.
the passion flowers are blooming strong this year, will have to divide it ...
Giant Bubbles
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Devin is our great grandson, he is now 16 but back when we took this picture he had just been shown how to make a giant bubble. My husband made the bubble ...
Sunset Skies
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all of these sunset sky pictures but the darker sunset beach, were taken from our front yard. I keep a look our for good cloud pictures and have full ...
Roses from the yard
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these pictures were taken yesterday in our front yard.
it had rained lightly through the night so there was dew drops all over the roses. Most fo the ...
The Sea in Motion, Seascape photographs, Oregon Coast
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These sea pictures were taken just off the cliff's near Shore Acres State Park. I wanted some pictures that were not all big splash stuff, but just lots ...
Sunset Beach State Park Coos Bay Oregon
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Sunset beach park is a small park around a cove next to the road on the way to Shore Acres. There is swimming . picnic area and a beautiful stream around ...
Mingus Park, Coos Bay, Oregon
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This park is in the city of Coos Bay about a 10 minute drive from our house. Its a beautiful city park very well kept up.... The front of the park has ...
Empire Lake pictures, Coos Bay, Oregon
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Empire lake is actually two lakes, man made years ago between the city Coos Bay, Empire lake and the local community college.
One of the pathways into ...
Flowers from an Oregon Garden
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Our entire front yard is a flower garden...I take pictures several times a week from tiny buds to full blooms. I am happy to share them with you.
Editors ...
Shore Acres, Sunny Day on the Oregon Coast
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Shore Acres is a State Park in Coos County south western Oregon coast. A rugged coast line with cliffs over 80 feet tall, a nice parl for parking and ...
Kilimanjaro Sunrise, Mountain scene
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I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at 66 years of age after fighting cancer for 3 1/2 years. I took this shot shortly before reaching the summit the 4th highest ...
Your next rose drawing.
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Here's an antique rose that was found at our local military cemetery. There are a number of antique roses within this old confederate/city cemetery that ...
Exit, Stage Left! Azalea Plant
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I was planting some small azalea bushes at my house and was interrupted by a visitor - a jumbo-jet sized bumble bee! Since I wanted to give him a little ...
Iris flowers, purple iris
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The purple iris is always a great painting subject. These particular iris flowers are so prolific. We have an entire bed of them. This particular photo ...
Phalaenopsis Orchids in Jeju
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Orchids in Yeomiji Botanical Garden Jeju South Korea. There were many orchids and I enjoyed taking the picture; however, my beautiful wife had been patient ...
Tropical Hibiscus in Jeju.
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Hibiscus in Yeomiji Botanical Garden Jeju South Korea. This flower was particularly full and beautiful. Stood out among the others.
Lily Flower, Day lilies
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Isn't this red lily flower gorgeous? Hopefully this summer I can get them in a bunch of 3 or 5 for you. The red is a brown, burgundy red. With the yellow ...
Tree Leaves, Maple Leaves, Fall Leaves
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Fall leaves are such a wonder here in central Virginia. Every year, the mountains become on fire with color. Maple leaves, and other tree leaves turn ...
Stargazer lily, lily flower
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Here's another great lily my florist friend allowed me to photograph. They were actually a present to my wife from her. (our anniversary) They are called ...
Growing Roses
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This yellow rose was a gift from my brother. We planted it between our driveways with our neighbor (the preacher with the green thumb and grand azalea ...
Pink Rose of Sharon, althea close up view
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This is a single blossom from our Rose of Sharon bush. It was given as a small cutting years ago, and the bush has been transplanted several times and ...
Pretty in White, Rose of Sharon
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I love the center color of this white flower. Taken at the Wellfleet Audubon, Cape Cod, Ma.
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Hi Yvette, yes, they are beautiful. This is a ...
Single Pink Sea Rose
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Sea Roses are very fragile and grow wild by our beaches on Cape Cod. Usually find them along a marsh or inlet near water. They grow in pink, red and white....
Daffodil Day, daffodil pictures, daffodil flower
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This is a picture used for one of my demonstrations. As you can see, it is but a simple single daffodil flower. It's from a neighbors front yard, (where ...
Endless Summer Hydrangea, Blue hydrangea, hydrangea flowers
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My brother has such luck! He's has absolutely no gardening training, yet, this one bush in the front yard just gets better and better each year. It has ...
