My Wendish mother and my Wendish grandmother loved to grow flowers in the yard and cut them and place them on the table in the house. Under their influence, I grew up with a great appreciation of a yard full of flowers and other forms of floral beauty. Unlike the two of them, I did […]

My Wendish mother and my Wendish grandmother loved to grow flowers in the yard and cut them and place them on the table in the house. Under their influence, I grew up with a great appreciation of a yard full of flowers and other forms of floral beauty. Unlike the two of them, I did

  Simeon and Anna…and Jesus The Good Shepherd #1 The Good Shepherd #2 The Way to Golgotha Madonna and Child One Pen and ink watercolor influenced by the Eastern Orthodox icons and Mary and Jesus. Madonna and Child Two Acrylics on wood. Madonna and Child Three with Mary Wearing Wendish Bonnet Pen, ink, and watercolor.

Wallis Church ]]>

On the Spree ]]>

New York in Turkey ]]>

My daughter on her wedding day in Sengelman Hall, Schulenburg. My Daughter’s Wedding Day ]]>

This pen and ink sketch is titled “Well, Hello There” (a drawing of a Baylor co-ed back in the late 1920’s). It was on exhibit at the Brenham Fine Arts League until somebody bought it. This is a copy. “Well, hello there!” ]]>

New York Daughter ]]>

My mother-in-law was a very elegant lady, much more refined than any of the wonderful Wendish women I grew up with. The Wendish ladies wore sun bonnets and dresses sometimes made of flour sacks. After my wife’s mother died, we inherited huge stacks of photos of elegant ladies, all in elegant, often formal attire. These