Snow Dusting, Decaying Flowers & Studio Time...

Woke up today with a nice surprise - a dusting of Snow!

Just enough for snow boots (why get regular shoes wet?) and some fun time before school...

Yesterday was the general monthly meeting for the NCC Master Gardeners.

It was great to see so many of my new gardener friends & catch up a bit.

After a presentation by a UD Professor, I have a new outlook on the use of annual plants in the garden & how they can be useful & temporary (they will not survive our growing season). 

It was a nice refresher - just what I needed.

Inspiration and motivation!

And on the way out through the parking lot I was able to snap some pics of the remains of the 

2011 Native Plant Teaching Garden. 

Narrow Leaf New York Ironweed.

Purple Cone Flower.

Then when I got home and spent a few hours updating things online for 

the First Friday Art Walk on Etsy.com 

(hosted by the AWETeam) I made my way into the studio to this mess: 

I am the type of person that needs the bed made before I get into it at night.

Maybe not ALL the time - but I do prefer it.

So it should be no surprise that I like to clean up before making a mess.

So here it is...

My studio space, cleared of the crazy clutter (for the most part - well - for the part I need to work in anyway) and I'm off to go work on some glazing with the Spring 2012 Pantone Fashion colors in mind.

Let's see what I come up with!

Check out my Marsha Neal Studio FaceBook page for updates as I work...