Summer is rushing by.

This painting, "Mama's Roses" is my entry to the October art show in Lander, Wyoming, Heart of the West. It is oil, 24" X 12".

My mother beaded the medallion for me about 1984. It is one of her last works. She began beading as a young girl.

When she was beading the mocassins, which are her personal pair, she was beading with Anita Large, a Shoshone matriarch of the Wind River Reservation and a very dear friend of hers. Anita lived in Crowheart on the old JK Ranch and Mom lived in Dubois on the LU Ranch. When Anita saw that Mom was beading the roses with the stems toward the toes, she told Mom, "Valeria, you are beading your roses upside down. They should be so when you look down at your feet they are positioned so you can see them right side up." Mom told Anita, "I want people to see me coming, not leaving." Anita got such a kick out of that.

So that is why it is called "Mama's Roses". She loved red rose.

I don't know where the time is flying, but it seems the summer is flying by and I have so much to do yet.