Snowy Wisconsin Backyard - artwork that makes me feel cold.

This painting was taken from a photo of a Wisconsin backyard in early March 2012.  This was the last hoorah of winter - the temperatures were unseasonable warm from early March onwards!

Waiting... A poem by Paul Howlett

Waiting...

A poem By Paul Howlett

Waiting for my wife

Waiting for the life

Waiting for the might

To carry on

To carry my load

To find a new road

To find a new way

To find a bright day

To dispel the gloom

As I had a feeling o doom

 The weight of the flood

Lingers on in the mind

Numbing the will

The will to go on

The will to succeed

To organise one’s life

To take all the strife

Of relocation of home

 Of rebuilding the house

Of reconstructing the lot

Of life, love and purpose

I find that is hard

But finally a light

Dealt in the death of a friend

Kick started me again

Get up off your bum

Take a look at the sum

Totality of it all

Back on the horse

Full gallop - of course

I am off again

Stuff all the pain

Take each day at a time

Like, love and be kind

To lover and friend

And I say again and again

Life is too short

To be inert and forlorn

Smile at the world

And take a new day

Wake up and pray

That life just goes on

And be on that way

To be happy and say

Love is the way!

Sadness in Blue - an abstract artwork

I have just come back from a funeral a couple of days ago and I think that this abstract painting shows my present mood.

Red Australian Flower - a bit of color in the Australian Bush

Here is a bright red Australian Flower - styled after the red Bottle Brush flowers that grow native in the Australian Bush.

Devils Island Lighthouse Wisconsin

This is my fantasy idea of Devils Island Lighthouse.  The real lighthouse does sit on an island not just in the middle of the lake as in my painting. I wanted to show the lighthouse in all it's "glory", and not hidden in the bushes of the greenery on the island.

Raspberry Island Lighthouse Wisconsin

Raspberry Island Lighthouse Wisconsin - I have taken some artistic licence when giving this lighthouse some form - other than it's original shape. I have done so to make the building look a little more 3 D.

Potholes - a poem about roads

Potholes

By Paul Howlett

Potholes in the road, what a load

Lots of bumps, make the car rock and roll

I hate the potholes caused by the rain and trucks

Not a worker in sight, now that really sucks

I find it amazing with our petrol tax dollar

That the roads in Australia are so pitted and poor

Makes the governments in Australia to be really corrupt

To spend all our money till they are bankrupt

Never the poor motorist gets to see a highway

That looks real good smooth and safe

We get roads of the nation look like Swiss cheese

Lots of holes in the making, to trap us in bumps

Making highway driving dangerous

Making travelling a boor

Make our nation look terrible

To tourists one and all.

Green Bay Lighthouse - Wisconsin

This Lighthouse is smack in the middle of the lower part of Green Bay - Wisconsin.

Chequamegon Point Lighthouse - Wisconsin

Here is the first of the Wisconsin Lighthouses that I like, and I hope you enjoy.