Yep, it's arrived. Fall.
Instantly the leaves in the back yard are changing- you better be paying attention, it happens fast this year - by the time I set up my paints outside the leaves will all fall...
Along with it is a cold damp dark morning! Yeah!!! Any morning we get to wake up and do what we love should be started with a SMILE..  I'm smiling - We're all up, Dogs have been outside,  the bluejay feeders are full so they don't wake the neighbours.  
My Ol' bones feel this weather- it's a part of being Canadian. Layer up, put on some warm lighting, my painting water has been changed and we're ready to go! Chill be gone- the moment my brush touches the canvas - so does my heart.  
Poppy is already in her basket - blanket on & will remain there for at least 2 hours, she is not a morning person.  Bring on this day!   Halloween thinking fun has begun!

What's the most frightening thing you can think of??    
TRUMP.  Evil on earth.
This is hell watching  him behave the way he does and having no say.
This is hell watching so many suffer and attempting to understand any of it. 
People will ask 'Where is God??  
We want FREE will to choose - until we make the wrong choices and then we ask
Where is God? How is this allowed to happen?     

I don't necessarily think it's the happening' of these events that is to make us think,  I think it's how we help each other in the aftermath. What we do today, NOW.  TRY to really make a positive difference and HELP someone- anyone. & then there's Trump.  Yikes
He is no more than a VULTURE, he appears to care as little about California as he does Puerto Rico.  God help America survive Trump...  is what hats should read.

I can't watch him & try not to think of him, it does not do my heart good & I've been reading so much about the heart- here I've been focusing much on the brain- and it's the HEART calling ALL the shots.  Heart & Brain are on the drawing desk too.  
I'll try to share some  positive heart healing or heart happy work this up coming week, a cannabis cartoon regarding our kids...

Today I'm going to Paint a new Canvas!!
How about you?

Thank you for taking a moment of your day to read my blog.

With Thanks
Georgia

Completed Toke Or Treat Tomorrow!!
It's a Gift for my friend Jennie- she'c crazy about Halloween & black Cats.

 Afternoon Delight.  Wow... I needed that.
This painting was waiting to emerge, more than I realized.
hee hee, I'd say that sky WAS a little boring ..before.
It started with one of my bigger brushes and I threw the paint on -  base color on a white canvas, sketching my bear with a brush instead of a pencil- "just paint!" I remember thinking.  The rest of the days were spent with much smaller brush - as small as a '0' most of the time.
As a matter of fact- it's how the fur was painted as well as the grass. TLC in every stroke.
THC too.   I'm learning to recognize my calmer moments (twitch-less) when I can work on more detailed areas like the face. I enjoyed painting this you have no idea & clarity in severals issues flowed to me like paint off my brush.
F*ck off.   LOL.  
Who needs this negative drama? Not me.  
Frig, Im tired- I think a lot lately- i just want to paint.
Focus on what you love Georgia..  enjoy your time doing what you enjoy most.. whispered my canvas.  

I am tired - I've been waking up every few hours for weeks, I went to the Dr. Monday and he felt what I also discovered recently, a big lump in my arm pit.  It's been causing me pain but I thought it was just stress from a few others things I was trying to sort out'.  Thursday I was already having a mammogram & ultrasound.  The mammogram was not bad at all, btw. 
I've felt worse.
Then I had the ultrasound and I could see what she could see and suddenly there was a big black ball. "Is THAT it??" I asked
...  "Yep, that's it."  
Yikes. That is... disturbing- seeing big black ball inside your body. 
It would take 5 days possibly with the long weekend for results I was told.
It was called already it is a very swollen Lymphnode which I will have to have checked again soon.  I'm told to relax, destress & enjoy. Ha! You don't have to tell me twice.
Before I got the FANTASTIC news I had already resolved that morning (after that great walk I had with my son) - I will rise above! I started my day with CoconutCream home made - bakery cake, fresh pineapple  (the bakery is in Newmarket - I highly recommend, as does Storm & now Norm) & coffee... then I got the call.  I'm Smiling!
YES I AM.  & know to keep on going the direction I am ..rise above with love.
Anger, hate, revenge- I've no time for. 

Who does? it's bad for the body, it's bad for your heart & mind. 
Not to mention -it makes it difficult for me to paint. ;) Truly - I was so tired that after I got the news I slept! lol ;) the body saying RELAX. I JUST finished this bear at 6 this a.m. 

I plan on doing just that. There is nothing like a serious cancer scare to help re align your life.  What matters? Hate begets hate. I can't paint if I feel hate, I physically can't & won't do it to myself.  Think about cancer seriously in your own body and you realize how trivial  so much of 'it' is.  
Thank You God.
I needed that.

Natural medicine is on my mind. The last Mapping of the Minds event educated me further and arrgavated me fruther- one more F*&^%$$$ lie it appears. Mushrooms are on the bottom of the list when it comes to dangerous 'drugs' (on the top was alcohol) or common recreational drugs... even after cannabis! I resent calling them drugs.  I had no idea.  Why are we being lied to? Why are people going to jail over such insanity!  
NATURE.
God put all plants here for all man- OUR CREATOR knew when these plants were placed here- they would HELP US.  *Mushroom are dangerous- IF YOU PICK the wrong ones YOU can die. KNOW your mushrooms- ALL of them. They are also healthy, beneficial and medicinal.  Bear is contemplating life,  Nature & Medicine.

I've included a Star mushroom- puffball', I met a very smart young man on one of our last forays with a cool name who educated me on them and where to find them.. the others are imagined or real- I'm not sure I've seen so many. My Bear Afternoon Delight is out and on my wall, Norm said "Wow, it's like 3D with those dots!" Storm too has commented on the detail several times.  I JUST want to PAINT it does the heart & art Good.

With it- thought, prayers and resolution- it always happens when I paint.
GIVE Thanks! I've already started another canvas! 
YOU know I'm (WE are ALL) celebrating this Thanks Giving!!

I'm still experiencing pain- I shall increase my medicine intake- amen.
& enjoy every second of it.

With Love 
​G
'Afternoon Delight' 
24 x 36 Acrylic on Canvas    Celebrating Natural medicine & Life.

My son told me to give this painting away.
Every time he looks at it he tells me to give it away... so, I agreed.
When I started it I was going to gift it.. but it took on a bit of a new meaning and I've decided to give to to a stranger- make someone I don't know happy.  I hope.
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I don't care who enters, a private person or business, it would look good hanging in a dispensary... I'll have a friend help when I choose the winner to keep it fair.
To ENTER:

Follow me on Instagram to possibly WIN this painting.
You must share the image on your Instagram page
Tag one friend   & tag me @georgia.toons so I can make sure you have entered correctly ;) 

Good Luck & good bye painting.
Open to anyone, anywhere around the world... I'll pay shipping! 

Opening wall spaces for more love & heART!

& NOW I'm taking break for few to PAINT a NEW masterpiece!
With Cannabis- of course!
I'm feeling great,  I've got some lovely #humbervalleyKush   &   #grapeeescape
keeping medicated with Gods medicine & a very talented grower.. of course.
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WITH LOVE
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It's Curly Bud Pig! Cannabis Pig here for your healing needs.
I was searching cute animals on PIN, hoping to be distracted by a squirrel or two and I found this little Ultra-rare corkscrew Piggy!  I never knew they existed, glancing at the image I giggled- although it was not my intent to paint cannabis - this is how it happens.  My cannabis painting for the day too easily imagined.
USE your imagination! 

End the stigma for this little pig!  
​Cannabis is a plant.
Safer than many medications available NOW, do your research.

I actually thought it was 'Fake News' but there are all kinds of these curly cuties on PIN and Google! It's easier now to imagine hairy bacon' - therefore I'll eat even less. 
Ultra-rare breed..  ultra-rare cannabis strain pig.

With Love
for these little curly creatures.   :)
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Sunshine Leo! I started him then had to take a break....  then when I started again,  he took a direction of his own! That is a joy of painting , suddenly you forget where you are you're looking at the texture, the paint, nothing matters.. I do it for myself no one else.
It's de-stressing - without narcotics, have you been reading about this opiate epidemic.  
I don't even want to consider them, I feel it's a slippery slope and we will all eventually have to learn with some pain. Some much sooner than others.
We can have pain in our bodies - accept it-  and keep moving forward- keep being nice, keep trying.  Or we can have pain and be nasty, cruel.. this only turns your own pain into sickness faster.  The choice is ours. 

Science & medicine clearly are advancing. Stay hopeful... unless your intentionally nasty...
KARMA is advancing as well.  

I was thinking of my friend who is an artist & a business man Jerry Kelly.  He is nice. NICE is a good thing.  Like My friend Ezra! have you watched this feel good vid?  It makes me feel good. I watch it quite a bit.... about cannabis of course. Jerry is a family man with an incredibly talented little girl & wife! All in the glass business! Thats how it is to be in my opinion! Wow, imagine the passion in that home when it comes to glass.
Jerry is always busy & keeps moving forward.  The Kelly Glass Family.  How terrific is this?
​I do think  Jerry will be my next visit to the USA 

Jerry inspires me.  I'm happy to call him friend.
Purple -royal - business man and a huge  Tie Dye T  a touch of Jerry Garcia.  ;)
The Jerry in the field' Leo was created. ;) 
I still feel it needs something int he sky..  perhaps I'll add it - just so Jerry & his family can enjoy it. ;) Our little secret.

Thankful for creative, Inspiring, kind people.

I still have more leo's.. I'm getting better with each!
What NEW skill are you mastering?  
How about the carrot cake!? Have you tried it?
​Nom Nom Nom! 

Have Faith 
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