Winter Squash

Squashed, 6x6" oil on museum quality panel, ©2012, Fay Terry

Butternut, Acorn, and Delicata squash are all favorites of mine this time of year. I am going to make some soup and thought it would be fun to paint these shapes and colors before I cut them up to cook.

I am always trying new recipes and have found some really good ones recently. My cookbooks rarely come off the shelves anymore because it is so much fun to cook with my iPad in the kitchen for recipe references and photos.

Squash Blossom

Squash Blossom

This is a wonderful and very productive vegetable garden in South Carolina.  The soil is mostly red clay, which is so different from the sandy soil where I live.  There has been lots of rain this week and the vegetables are growing very rapidly.

6 x 6 in. oil on gesso board

Delicata Squash

 Delicata Squash
This lovely striped squash is almost ready to pick and will be part of dinner one night this week.  It is growing in the garden of Le Chateau Terry in South Carolina.  I can hardly wait to be among the lucky dinner guests who are treated to a taste of this exotic vegetable.

6x6 oil  on museum quality panel