This painting was done for my Granddaughter Avery's 1st Birthday. The card that I wrote with a special verse just for her (and Mommy and Daddy since she cannot read yet).

Avery, Happy 1st Birthday

Avery the first to be born that day

Adorable and healthy just as we pray

Absolutely awesome and our fears did allay

Always God’s best, born without delay

Anniversary 1 is February 2, her birthday display

Aroma of sweetness our fragrant bouquet

Arrangements of flowers celebrate and convey

All our hearts are happy, hooray, hooray

Aviary is where hummingbirds take flight

Alluring spirit soaring to lofty height

Attitude and laughter always a delight

Active articulate and shining and so bright

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26

So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:21