Just a short post today to say, “Happy Sunday”. I hope you are enjoying the spring weather. I was beginning to wonder if we would ever get a real spring day, but today, though a little cool, is just perfect.
As I drove to church and back this morning, I so enjoyed the flowers filling gardens and the blossoms on the trees. It is a beautiful time of year. Another thing I love is to hear the birds singing and filling the air with life.
I also wanted to share with you some of my recent artwork. My photo cut off off a little of the chickadee, but I hope you enjoy the colorful birds. I don’t know if I have ever done drawings of birds before, but I had fun doing them in colored pencil.
From top to bottom: Cardinal, scarlet-bellied mountain tanager, red-breasted grosbeak, chickadee and American goldfinch.
I hope this has brightened your day a little. Thanks for taking time to stop by. I hope you will leave a comment in the box below before you leave. I do look forward to your comments. And if you are not following my blog, please take an extra moment or two to click on the “Follow” button at the top. You will receive e-mail notifications for every new post.
God bless you and may you have a wonderful week filled with joy and peace and love.
For the Joy of Writing 
Love your bird drawings Diane. Blessings to your day!
Thank you, Leona. God bless you.
Oh, Diane, your drawings are amazing!!! Yes, definitely cheered up my day, my friend. If you post later this week, but don’t see a comment from me, please understand that I’ll be spending the time with my mother where I have no computer, and iffy access to a phone signal.
May your week be blessed!
Thank you so much, Martha. I hope your visit will be enjoyable. I think it’s good to sometimes be away from the computer. I seldom am on on Sundays, but today I had some things I needed to communicate with people. Also I hope to get a little more editing done on my book on prayer to get it ready as soon as possible for publishing. God bless.
These are really good drawings, Diane!
Thanks, Laura. I’m in a FaceBook group for Christian artists and writers, and the leader puts up a new page every weekday where we are to share our daily artwork. I hadn’t done any art for a long time, so this has got me back into the groove again. I’m using colored pencils mostly with one watercolor. So I thought I would share the combined week’s work here as it was all on one page. I did two one day and one on the other days.
Lovely post and Beautiful Birds! I love birds, but cannot draw! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for stopping and commenting, Mary. And thank you for the compliment. I love birds, too, especially the really colorful ones. I can’t recall ever drawing birds before, at least not in full and not in color. God bless.
Diane, each time I see your drawings or read your words, I am inspired to be more of what I am put in this Life to Be. I saw your birds today and wept tears of Joy as I remembered a significant moment tied to birds such as these. The first day I woke as a free-minded woman in my own home, it was the sweet song of birds waking me. This was a childhood wish of mine come true. Thank you for bringing this memory back to me through your drawing. Today, you have made a significant difference in my life.
Thank you for your encouraging comment and for taking time to read my post. You made my day! It is my prayer always that what I write, whether in my blog or in my books, to encourage others, and often I have no idea whether or not I have accomplished this. Your comment gives me reason to keep posting. Thank you and God bless you richly.
I love the colour sketches! Beautiful!🖤
Thank you so much. I appreciate you checking out my post so quickly. Glad you enjoyed my drawings.
Oh it a such a pleasure! We are a community and we should support one another!🖤
I like that, and I agree. Thank you so much.
Such a pleasure!🖤
beautiful bird artwork!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. And thanks for the follow. I’m glad you enjoyed the birds. It’s the first time I have ever done birds in color, maybe in any medium. It was fun. Have a wonderful day. God bless.
Thank you for dropping in at my blog, Diane.
Your bird drawings are lovely. The yellow
finch brings back childhood memories – they always came in the late summer to visit our home because we had sunflowers.
Thank you for your comment. I’m glad the birds held good memories for you. It’s always nice when something brings back special times in our lives.