Barb Benik Artist Studio

04/01/2025

The good news is that the “Frost” dwarf peach tree is alive, leafing out, and blooming. Hope the upcoming winter weather at the end of the week doesn’t spell doom to peaches this year…

03/30/2025

Woods Supermarket celebrated the opening of its first location outside of Missouri.

03/22/2025

Hello, spring! 🌼

Celebrate the magic of springtime with Camille Pissarro’s impressionist painting from 1900 titled "Spring at Éragny."

Later this year, the DAM will display more than 80 paintings by Camille Pissarro from nearly 50 international museums and private collections, including six works in the DAM's collection!

Opening on October 26, “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” is the first major U.S. museum retrospective of the artist, known as “the first impressionist,” in more than four decades. This exhibition is co-organized by the DAM and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Z2dlfR

Artwork: Camille Pissarro, "Spring at Éragny (Printemps à Éragny)," 1900. Oil paint on canvas; 25 ¾ × 32 ⅛ in. (65.4 × 81.6 cm). Frederic C. Hamilton Collection, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

03/17/2025

03/08/2025

Since 1993, 122 people have gotten sick from the virus in Colorado – the second most number of cases of any U.S. state.

12/17/2023

Learning about my heritage by making lefse (Norwegian flatbread). A 2-day process

09/16/2023

Blue grama “Blonde Ambition” is a perennial grass that is drought tolerant once established. It does need regular watering when first planted, as well as throughout its first winter.

10/16/2022

Don’t forget tomorrow starts the new Facebook (aka...new name, META) rule where they can use your photos. Don't forget the Deadline is today!!!
If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates.
DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste.
Their new algorithm chooses the same few people - about 25 - who will read your posts.
Therefore:
Hold your finger down anywhere in this post and "copy" will pop up. Click "copy". Then go to your page, start a new post and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will pop up and click paste
This will bypass the system.
I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION TO SHARE ANYTHING OF MINE., THAT I HAVE PUT ON THEIR SITE, . PICTURES, CURRENT OR PAST POSTS, PHONE NUMBERS OR EMAILS.. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAN BE USED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT MY WRITTEN PERMISSION OR VERBAL CONSENT.

09/04/2022

For the record - this is the first album I can remember buying - part of it anyway. My sisters and I pooled our money to get this Beatles album. I love the Fab Four to this day.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Beatles!

Meet the Beatles! is a studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released as their second album in the United States. It was the group's first American album to be issued by Capitol Records, on 20 January 1964 in both mono and stereo formats. It topped the popular album chart on 15 February...