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About Laura

Laura is an Artist who lives in Guelph Ontario. She is interested in societal equality, beauty, architecture, philosophy, feminism, people watching, dogs, animal rescue, ecology, as well as the generational ties between people. Laura has always been interested in peace and because she loves animals she is vegan. https://www.instagram.com/atelieroflauraleemoreland/ https://www.facebook.com/AtelierofLauraLeeMoreland https://atelieroflauraleemoreland.com

Changing Flowers

In early September I took a photo of some flowers that were blooming along the edge of the fence at the tiny house.

Carrie's flowers

Tiny House and Porch – The house has a relatively HUGE cloth porch, the perfect place to sit outside but be free of biting insects that are plentiful in the Ontario forest.

When I arrived back four weeks later, on the last day of the month I found that it was fall in the area.  I also found that finally my dahlia had bloomed.  The flower is so huge that the plant could not hold it up, so I posed it for the photo.

Yellow dahlia

The sunflowers were eaten quite some time ago by the little garden thieves but one sole teddybear variety did not become a midnight snack.  I was surprised to find it there, hanging like those in J.E.H MacDonald’s  “the Tangled Garden”. It might be fun to paint this one.  The natural world is alive with change.

THO Tangled Garden

Categories: Forest, Magical, Nature, Off Grid, Ontario, Simple living, Tiny House Ontario, View | 4 Comments

Another Angle

A while ago one of my readers asked me why I don’t show other angles of Tiny House Ontario.  The reason is much more simple than you might think.  Just five feet in front of the house begins a thorn bramble.  It runs due East to West and makes stepping far enough away from the house to get a photo sort of tricky.

The bramble is dense.  when I stand on the other side of it in the clearest area about 30 feet from the house, after half of the leaves have fallen this what you can see of the house.   Can you see it???Tiny House Ontario from the South

Categories: Forest, Nature, Off Grid, Ontario, Simple living, Tiny House Ontario, View | 13 Comments

Photos to follow up from Tiny House Listings

Tiny House Listings has posted my weekly column here.  Here are more photos from the solar furnace project!

G caulking the cracks Here is the exterior infrastructure!  Adjusting the screws Laura hanging on the roof doing nothing Ready for Plexiglass Matt paint Viking in contemporary drag G adjusting Guillaume doing my work for me A HOLE IN THE WALL!!!!  EEEEK! Resuming with the box up! Vent near outlet Hj Fixing my wiring Cut wires and curse words Waiting after the injury

 

Can you guess?

Categories: Off Grid, Tiny House Ontario | 9 Comments

A Spy!

Have you ever been busy doing something and felt that someone is watching you.  Well, I have.  As a matter of fact it happened to me just this morning.  Fortunately, I caught the watcher on camera, so I have proof!

Spy

Categories: Forest, Nature, Off Grid, Ontario, Open your eyes, Simple living, Tiny House Ontario | 7 Comments

Jump in!

My thumb is now nearly healed but still does not bend all the way and I can’t pick stuff up very easily with it either.  It feels detached from what I want to do still, slow to respond, sluggish and very weak.  It is sort of like another person’s thumb accidentally got sewn on.

I am keeping busy painting while I am here which is about the only thing I can do.  Thankfully it was not my painting hand that was injured.

My latest work is a little more cutesy than my typical paintings.  The reason I chose to paint this is because my cousin’s baby (painted here) seemed to be dropping everything just to jump into the natural world.  I strongly identified with this.  I thought many readers here also would.

Your Little Girl

If interested, prints of this work are available here.

Categories: Art, Original Art work of Laura Moreland | 10 Comments