Weeks ahead of the game!

I am FINISHED with the Elementary art room!  I have it all cleaned up- in the put away sense.  Not in the you could eat off the tables and/or floor sense.  AND the HS art room is also way way cleaner than it usually is at this time.  So I should be able to finish my grading by working on it tonight and tomorrow for a while, and then finish sorting and organizing on Monday.....

I'd like to THANK my wonderful students at the HS for helping me get through all of that stuff and a big special thanks to Blake, Olivia and Rachel who either did or is planning to help me out over and above class time.  I couldn't have gotten this far without any of them.

Rachel and Olivia  and I - with some AWEsome new "art shirts" from the elem. 

An almost all around the room panorama of the elem art room.  I'm so thrilled with this- it could be cleaned tomorrow!

Now THIS, ladies and gentlemen, gives the MAD ART TEACHER joy!

Parts of my day.....

I had a couple more pictures that didn't fit into the flower post.  I could have waited and put them on a Sunday Photo Post, but I liked them all for different reasons!  So here we are.  There was an amazing cloud thing going on last night, it was preceding the thunderstorms that rolled in over night.  It was a nice thunderstorm, we could have the window open a little and the rain wasn't blowing in- kind of a soothing rain and rumble.

Before the gentle storms

 I had this surprise for me hanging on the door at school yesterday morning.  This must have been 5 inches across- huge!!  A Cecropia- according to my dear friend Callen Harty.

Cecropia Moth at school

 In other news, Olivia was doing some art work (YAY FOR OLIVIA) and Kenray added his own unique touch to the moment.  We had some great laughs over these shots!!

I LOVE this ceiling tile- it is right over my desk

One of my very fav. ceiling tiles

Version 2 of the sky last night- taken from right down in the clover field

Little pockets of joygivers in my day....