A Brush with Life - Issue #122 Starting to Stir
Spring starts early here on the southwest coast of Canada. As soon as the days are noticeably longer the snowdrops bloom and the magnolia buds form. Not even temperatures dropping to just below freezing seems to still the stirring of new growth…
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #2 The Coziest of Cozy Season
There is a false sense that everyone is gone. This untruth seems to prevail only because the majority of people leave the island to the seals and otters during January and the first half of February. This climate is warm in the winter by Canadian standards. Cold is not the issue…
A Brush with Life - Issue #121 Best of 2022 and Hello 2023
What was that!? This is how I think of 2022. Continued monitoring and masking coupled with a new war and global financial uncertainty. However, here I am sprinting into 2023 with hardly a backward glance…
A Brush with Life - Issue #120 Gift of Our Best Selves
Alert! Included in this final 2022 issue is a time limited special offer for A Brush with Life subscribers to
Terrill Welch by herself - Issue #1 Before the Beginning
Sometimes a new beginning is more like a middle or it might even possibly be near the end. We never really know do we?
A Brush with Life- issue #119 Cozy Season with Sold Paintings
The last few days have been draped in lazily drifting snowflakes broken up with warm winter sun edged by a
A Brush with Life - Issue #118 We Have Successfully Migrated
With the ease of a flock of Canadian geese heading south, our "A Brush with Life" newsletter has
A Brush with Life - Issue #117 Change is Always in the Wind
Today, I could use several carbon copies of me to implement online changes that hopeful will be seamless for our “A Brush With Life” newsletter. The short version is that the platform (Revue) that hosts “A Brush With Life” is suppose to become nonexistent by the end of the year. I have been monitori
When it Rains in Winter
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A Brush with Life - Issue #116 Finding Small Beauties while at the Easel
There is the smell of snow in the mountains around us as daily highs drop to 11 degrees or so Celsius and water barrels refill after more than 100 days without rain and unseasonably warm temperatures. Blustery winds hint at future winter stores and leaves and tree cones fly through the air. The shif