i think i got spring fever...... and sinus

i been trying to paint roses.....now you folks know i am really not good at flowers at all...seriously not good at them. i do sorta try at times.... but well.....the duck drawings are powerful, they are authoritative, they are good..... my flower paintings are sorta anemic, timid, and a bit pokey.
cause i am NOT sure and confident with them.
(ironically i am good with figure drawing, but that is because i always had live models when i was doing figure work)
anyway, until the muse hits......i been doing a bunch of tiny painting of pumpkins, and today tried a rose because i am so freeken sick of this really cold weather.... SICK OF IT i tell you.
anyway i have come to the conclusion that i suck at flower painting, give me a duck i am in my element, guess some refined and cultured florals are beyond me and i am much more comfortable in a barn (which btw i am convinced is the BEST PLACE ON EARTH....i love barns....i love being in barns if there are animals in there.....LOVE IT)

here is a shot of my first garden bed, it's 2' wide by 8' long, at the far end are my multiplier onions, some garlic and at the near end my ONE tiny little walking eygptian onions... i had to move them, i had no choice. if i didn't they were doomed to be trampled by someone's size 11.5 sneakers.... (i wear a size 6.5) so we moved them. i think that the multipliers should bulb up well at least the small ones the big ones tend to make lots of baby bulbs.... which you replant and THEY make the big onions....cool huh?
anyway that is one bed.

i didn't pull the plastic off the bean bed today, as it was raining and quite cold.......i was cold. so i made the beans 'put a sweater on' which was the plastic. meanwhile i spend the day trying to keep warm. (i am typing this wen night, while waiting for bernie to get out of the shower)  due to cold and sinus, the ducks didn't get out until late. momma didn't want to go out.... she ran back in a few times. as she's got a crate full of  eggs now.
i let her in and wouldn't let falstaff in with her.....i am going to let her try and set i think. i don't like the idea as she doesn't have access to outside if she sets..... the crate is still in the house...i can carry the crate in and out i suppose..... maybe we'll try that..the worse that can happen is she abandons the eggs right?
she was very cute, one egg was broken so she carried it out of the nest and out of the HOUSE..... dropped it outside!
i said to her.....'you want water now'?
she didn't
she also tried to get lilli's eggs.....which i find funny as lilli kept eye momma's eggs.....
those girls crack me up
ok so this is going to post in the moring........ i will hopefully be asleep....
gees....