This beautiful little wood nymph watches from the flowers in the flowerbed or is imagined at other times in the thick underbrush of a windling, jungle trail.

Mona Lisa 'Roo is the most famous kangaroo of all.....at least she should be. She has the same enigmatic smile of her famous alter ego, but with a much more colorful personality. .

This is our cat, Abby Cat, doing one of her favorite things.....sitting in the windowsill, staring out into the night thinking deep thoughts or watching things we cannot see.

On days when my imagination takes the day off, I look around for something to paint. The "stuff" in my studio looked promising and colorful, so I arranged them attractively and painted away.

Inspired by the colors of the Southwest and fashion art, I painted this imaginary woman. She would fit right in visitng the fine art galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This painting was a lot of fun first a high fashion figure, then the wild colored background, then splatterd paint all over.

I have no idea why I decided to paint a pigeon, but he looked so drab until I added his newest party outfit. He ready for a night on the town.

This gorgeous flower grew in our backyard, and bloomed for only about a day. I knew I had to paint it. Of course, anytime my art starts getting too serious, hearts, stars, etc. begin to appear. I like that.

My imagination at work again. I have been greatly influenced by the beauty of the Southwest, including Texas and New Mexico. And I enjoy painting figures. Perhaps those images were in my mind.

Yes, that's my cat, Abby Cat. And yes, she loves to tear up flowers. I've asked our children to stop sending flowers. This painting won "The People's Choice Award" at a recent art show I entered.

There goes my imagination again. I just started painting and this is what happened.

This bouquet of flowers were on our breakfast table one morning while I was attending an art workshop in northern New Mexico.

In our Texas summer we have both fireflies and frogs on our patio. This was not a big leap for my imagination.

Straight from my imagination.

This lovely yellow rose was brought to our table by the waiter at a fine restaurant one night. I painted it the next day. This painting makes a beautiful companion to the Gardenias painting.