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Introducing Strombus Canarium Labiatus Labiatus, or may I call it Canary Lip Conch? The actual shell is a diminutive specimen from the East Indian Ocean, about an inch and a quarter long, finely marked and was well worth a long look with a magnifying glass.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Though it was long ago, I'll never forget how sweet it was to stroll along the beach collecting delicate sand dollars.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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From the coastal waters off California, the Abalone. A delight to gourmets and shell collectors.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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From the muddy mangrove swamps and bays of Florida, Melongena corona, Kings Crown or Crown Conch.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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After a long online search, I've come to believe that the subject of this painting is a very fine Turban shell, an Angaria delphinus atrata, probably from the Philippines, collected in the early 1960's. It has a lively pattern of black ridges over a pink and white base. In the few places where to pink top layer is chipped, the pearly throat of the shell gleams through. The mouth of the shell is a perfect round, smoothly coated with irridescent pearl, a perfect fit or my left index finger.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Glossy eggshaped shell,
with mottled lacquered sheen.For some,
Ocean currency,
was once the shell standard.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Fairy-tale snails from the Once-Upon-A-Time most beautiful Caribbean island, Hispaniola.
-nB
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Sandy delectables,
Tubers grated, well-washed leaves and stems finely chopped,
Chestnuts and goat cheese,
A dash of minced onion,
On a bed of lettuce,
With avocado,
And a glass of red wine.
- nB
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
signed, dated and comments on the back
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5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
signed, dated and comments on the back
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5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Like vegetable ornaments, lining up for a Christmas salad.
- Nancy Boudreau
4 1/2" x 71/2" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Have you ever walked down a Manhattan street in November and smelled chestnuts roasting in a vendor's cart? Have you bought a warm bag of them and slowly strolled, peeling shells from the hot nuts as you went, popping the meats into your mouth?
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Baby Bok Choy and it's fragrant friends, star anise and ginger, another delicious combination.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Here comes the sun, little darlin', here comes the sun.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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While painting a November morning,
Wet and blue and mist shrouded,
Colors building slowly
With the increasing light,
It dawned on me,
Why they call it
The Sticks.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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A little summer in citrus
sitting on an antique cutting board.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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One of my favorite combination of ingredients.
- Nancy Boudreau
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1969, a gift from the neighbors,
a pilot and stewardess,
back from Japan.
My only doll, today.
- Nancy Boudreau
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Smiling face, arms outstretched, head high.
Happy orchid
Filling my heart with green, light and life.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Chicoreus dilectus,
Elaborate tiny shell
Of gray, pink and white
Like blushing ashes
In the palm of my hand.
Beach treasure,
Remnant of my childhood
The life that made you
Is long gone
An empty shell
In the palm of my hand.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Gripping the wheel, flying up the road by the reservoir,
The usual urgent endless rush of vehicles,
Containing people desperate to touch home base.
An incredible fleeting beauty envelopes all,
Completely overlooked,
As they lock their attention on the red tail lights ahead.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Purchased at a local supermarket, an unnamed orchid from an unknown origin, intriguing nonetheless.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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The Moth Orchid, Phalaenopsis, is lovely even without blooms.
- Nancy Boudreau
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Sweetly scented
Flirtatious dance
The brush traces their petal steps
Painting the buds that have opened
Before dawn- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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It's a big year for acorns, here in western Connecticut. The wild beasties that feast on them should be having a grand Thanksgiving.- Nancy Boudreau
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•A dark accident
Faster than thought
With no intention
Of bloodletting
-Nancy Boudreau
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Sweetcake Mountain Preserve, in New Fairfield, is a small parcel belonging to the New Fairfield Land Trust. The highlight of the Preserve is a place known as the Comer, a high stone ridge overlooking Candlewood Lake. This painting is only a small piece of the broad panoramic view that can be seen from the Comer.
- Nancy Boudreau
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There's a rosebush on the south side of the house that continues to sporadically flower, despite cold, aphids and neglect. Can we too, like the rosebush, flourish despite adversity, if situated in the right place?- Nancy Boudreau
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The first six months of painting are over. It was a time of tremendous creativity, inside and out. The vigor of the seasons, spring and summer were so easy to portray. Six months ago the trees outside my window looked almost as they do today, somewhat bare with little bits of color - green then, yellow now. The days are short and getting shorter. It's getting colder and more difficult to be optimistic as we're all reminded of the end of things comfortable and bright.
- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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This painting has been hanging around begging to be finished for some time, for better or worse.
- Nancy Boudreau
7 1/2" x 7 1/2" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Some kids call these "helicopters" for the way the seeds twirl as they fall to the ground. - Nancy Boudreau
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Getting to The Lookout is a fair hike with some climbing, but the south facing view down the length of Candlewood Lake is well worth the effort. There's lots of good company at the top too! - Nancy Boudreau
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I have been beach combing,
Up and down the length of my days,
Collecting small treasures,
To share with you.
- Nancy Boudreau
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This is an offspring of the plant that was painted yesterday, one of many, many progeny. There is no plant with quite so much life in it as the Monstera deliciosa.- Nancy Boudreau
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Monstera deliciosa is a houseplant that spends the summer outdoors, thriving on fresh rainwater and a bit of dappled sunshine. Now that the evening temperatures are below 40˚F, the monstera and all the other houseplants have been brought inside, where their greenery can cheer us through the gray months ahead.- Nancy Boudreau
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It's that time of year when funny-looking squashes and gourds begin to appear in the markets. This hybrid acorn squash was in a bin full of wildly marked individuals, there were no two alike.- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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I found this nut, which had been stolen from my drawing table, in a mouse midden, extensively gnawed. This shell, so hard that I would have needed a hammer to open it, had been worked over by the mice so that the only thing left was a delicately sculpted abstract form.- Nancy Boudreau
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Surrounded by summer homes and parks, Squantz Pond is a weekend destination for many people. Now in the autumn, the parks and woods are quiet, a perfect place for a peaceful walk.- Nancy Boudreau
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Dare I make a pie? With bits of crystalized ginger and dates. . . honey and butter. A cup of hot coffee. A quiet weekend afternoon chat with a friend. . . - Nancy Boudreau
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A staple foods for many kinds of wild animals in Connecticut, acorns and black walnuts are plentiful this year.
- Nancy Boudreau
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My gaiters were yellow with pollen after walking through this field of Black-Eyed Susan and dried grasses. Part of the Naromi Land Trust, the field is in it's first autumn after being seeded this spring with native wild grasses and flowers.
- Nancy Boudreau
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Little gems, though bumpy and marked, these windfall apples made yet another delicious pie.- Nancy Boudreau
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These are the colors of autumn brightened by the less-than-welcome invader "Celastrus orbiculatus" - Oriental Bittersweet. Round leaves and dense clusters of fruit growing close on the vine are telltale signs that this is the Asian variety of Bittersweet.- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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Remember the "Windfall Apples" painting from last week? More than just good to look at, they made a tasty pie. Perhaps we could call it Mahatma Apple Pie, being that the usual array of spices have been replaced with Indian flavors of jaggery and garam masala.
- Nancy Boudreau
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This may be a dahlia "Clair Obscure." Received from a friend October 2nd, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, what could have been more fitting than a floral mandala? It is a sublime expression of the beauty of peace.
- Nancy Boudreau
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What is this mystery plant with the beautiful flowers and amazing leaves? The leaves have soft bristles like an african violet, the undersides are a deep purple. The firecracker shaped flowers have no scent and emanate from the stem in groups of six.
- Nancy Boudreau
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This is a quiet little park in New Milford on the Still River; a nice place to launch a kayak, paddle down through Lover's Leap and then return for a picnic.- Nancy Boudreau
5" x 7" acrylic painting on gessoed mat board
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