Valentine's Day Giveaway!

Wiry Red Fox
original watercolor illustration 8x10"

This month's giveaway is a little different.  I recently illustrated a quote from "How I Go to the Woods"- a favorite poem by my favorite author Mary Oliver.  Unbeknown to me, Mary Oliver has pretty tight restrictions on her writing...so this painting will now be given away instead of sold.  But that's ok!  You all know how much I love giveaways. :)

 

Every purchase in my Etsy shop during the month of February will enter your name in the drawing once.  Purchase an original and get your name in the drawing 5 times. The giveaway will close Thursday, February 28th at midnight central standard time.

Thanks for letting me change it up this time!  I have some really great giveaways coming up this year that I know you'll really enjoy.  This will be the first of many!

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my love language...

imagine a place that always smells like hundreds of pine trees.
a place sheltered from the beating sun, the whirling wind, the sounds of civilization. 
a place where you can feel completely alone

and yet not lonely, surrounded by the Lord and His beauty. 
a place to rest and yet to feel more awake than you've felt all day.

ahhh.  this is nice. 

welcome to my favorite place.

sometimes in the morning I get there before the fog clears.  oh how beautiful the trees look with the fog! 

 it's the prettiest gray you've ever seen. 

and it always amazes me how quiet it is...well, quiet in the sense that you can't hear all the cars going 90 just on the other side of the trees. 

all you can hear is the sound of the leaves clapping,

the birds yelling and fighting and singing, the squirrels running in the leaves.

and the most beautiful aroma...something you'd never be able to buy.

and here's the best part.  it's all free.  given as a gift. 

from the Father of love.

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