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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush
@kathleenmaunder.bsky.social
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Watercolour painter, passionate gardener, nature lover, dog pal, bookworm, cookbook collector

🎨 My art: https://trowelandpaintbrush.com
Paintings, prints, cards and bookmarks.

📍Near Montreal 🇨🇦
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From my afternoon walk with Jasper. We’ve had a blue sky the past two days which makes this early winter weather more bearable. Speaking for myself of course. Jasper is ecstatic. ⛅️🐕❄️
The silhouettes of trees still bearing some autumn leaves with snow at their base. The sun shines in the background casting long linear shadows. The clouds converge in the background, almost in a butterfly shape.
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Last garden kale of the season picked Friday. Some of the leaves were under snow! Both beautiful and delicious. 🌱🥬
A colander is filled with kale leaves, some lacinato and a delicate ruffled type.
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Strange to be experiencing fall and winter all at once.
A sidewalk banked by an unusually deep November snowfall is towered over by maples with gold autumn leaves.
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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We had 20 cm of snow overnight! A good part of it is now on Jasper. 🐕
A fluffy gold-red dog looks through the glass pane of a back door. He is covered with tiny snowballs.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Weather report.
A tall, fluffy dog looks out at recently snow-covered garden.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Have you ever seen someone wear a leaf more perfectly?
Jasper, my goldendoodle, looks straight at the camera with a leaf almost the exact colour of his fur delicately placed under the right side of his chin. Perfect fall accessory. 🐕🍂
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Kohlrabi picked from the garden today and the very last flowers of the season. We woke to sub-zero temperatures. The kohlrabi has made its way into a kohlrabi apple salad to accompany tonight’s dinner. 🌱🥗
My hand holds a bouquet of kohlrabi and the last flowers of the garden against a red brick wall. A kohlrabi and apple salad in a glass bowl.
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I have a few this-and-that bouquets around the house. I keep picking flowers and bringing them in, each time thinking the season might be over. It’s so nice to still have fresh garden flowers in November! 🌱
A bouquet of garden flowers sits on a dark ceramic tray. There are sweet peas, dahlias, nasturtiums, orlaya, gaillardia, geraniums, snapdragons and verbena in an angular green ceramic vase. My ever-present doodle is in the background. A bouquet of fresh garden flowers in a Mason jar. The blooms include dahlias, zinnias, nasturtiums, orlaya and snapdragons in pinks, whites and yellows.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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A bouquet of kale headed into dinner and a lone sweet pea bloom on its way into a vase. 🌱 Not bad for a November garden.
My left hand holding a bouquet of kale picked from the vegetable garden. At the front of the kale is a single stem of pink sweet peas. There are yellow nasturtiums in the background.
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I groomed Jasper’s this week. I gave him a bath yesterday morning and trimmed him yesterday and today. I’ve been doing it myself for two years now. It’s amazing how cooperative he is. He’s never restrained and knows he’ll be rewarded with many treats. One ‘after’ and two ‘before’ photos.
One proud and freshly groomed goldendoodle sits in front of a fireplace. A very shaggy goldendoodle stares off to the side (or maybe he’s looking directly at the camera but we can’t tell because of his long hair). A goldendoodle with ridiculously long facial hair has a sad, serious expression.
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Evening walk with the pup. Some kind of beautiful.
The silhouettes of trees gently lean towards a pathway. A soft grey, orange sunset lights the background.
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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He is most definitely an autumn. 🍂
A leashed goldendoodle sits surrounded by a pile of autumn leaves almost exactly his colour.
October 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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A delicious lunch for Thanksgiving Day with the only tomatoes that managed to ripen in our garden! I’ve brought in the rest, all green. I guess it made us appreciate these ones all the more. #goodlunch #thanksgiving 🇨🇦
A caprese salad with red and yellow tomatoes and basil from the garden, fresh mozzarella, olive oil, salt and pepper.
October 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Our Thanksgiving meal. Just the two of us this year so I made a favourite meal of turkey risotto with prosciutto and olives. The turkey was frozen from Christmas so it’s double celebratory.
A bowl of turkey risotto with prosciutto and black olives dressed with fried sage leaves from the garden.
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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From my garden this week. 🌱
A huge bouquet of pink, red and yellow zinnias picked because of impending frost Trays of mostly green tomatoes from my garden Two lonely autumn crocuses from my garden
October 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Jasper can be so comical. Among my pet names for him: dork, doofus, ding-dong and, of course, my sweetheart. Zoom in on his eyes.
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A fluffy goldendoodle stands in a pile of autumn leaves that are in absolute harmony with his golden red tones. He has a very silly expression on his face composed of a side-eye look and smile.
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Some bee love from my garden this week. This late season beauty is so bittersweet. 🌸🐝
October 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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I weeded the side garden this afternoon. Good to quiet the brain. 🌱
A view of my freshly weeded shady side garden divided by a stone and gravel path. It’s winding down for the season but flowers are still visible including nasturtiums, Japanese anemones, turtlehead, asters and black-eyed susans.
September 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Same dog a day apart. I groom Jasper myself and it takes two days. Lots of short sessions. We’re both tired at the end of it but proud of our work. He’s so fluffy and smells so good!
Jasper yesterday. A shaggy goldendoodle with long, curly hair and a serious look. Jasper today. A goldendoodle sits proudly on stone steps sporting his freshly groomed look.
September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A watercolour painting I did this week of my dog Jasper. It's a blissful moment I caught him in a year or so ago when there were early snowflakes in the air. I just love the expression on his face.
My hand holding a watercolour painting I did of my goldendoodle Jasper. In the painting, he has his head tilted back and his nose in the air in a moment of pure bliss. Artist: Kathleen Maunder
September 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I hope you like it! Each time I've made it, it looks different according to the size of the plums and the pattern that I lay them in. Here are a couple I've made. Each an individual!
Marion Burros' plum torte in a spring form pan. Marion Burros' plum torte on a glass cake stand.
September 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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It's time to play find the leaf! 🍂
A fluffy, goofy goldendoodle with a small leaf embedded in his facial hair.
September 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Three garden bouquets. This is the time of year when the more flowers inside the better. Earlier in the season I hesitate to bring too many in. 🌱
#bloomscrolling
A bouquet of pink zinnias, yellow black-eyed susans, white orlaya and orange-pink snapdragons taken from above A bouquet of pink- and red-toned zinnias rake from above A bouquet of pink Japanese anemones, pink and pale yellow zinnias, black-eyed susans, purple salvia and white orlaya taken from above
September 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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It’s happening on the calendar and in the forest! 🍁
A branch with beautiful red maple leaves leans towards a forest pathway. Green vegetation surrounds it. From this morning’s walk.
September 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Concentrating on nature helps a bit. The sky brought to you by this evening’s dog walk.
A beautiful golden sunset behind slate blue clouds. A tree line in visible underneath.
September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM