Mar31Art

Met with our friends Dave and Laura for dinner before the hockey game. They have the seats right next to ours all season. It was a great last game, and we squeaked into the playoffs.
The sea gull was standing in the parking lot with about 20 of his fellow sea gulls, I think they are beautiful. My husband is not a fan and calls them 'rats with wings'.

Mar30Art

Palmetto trees abound in Charleston... finding a way to draw/paint them is something I keep trying to do.  They have a deceptively simple outline, from a distance they look like lollipops. 

It's been a long week, looking forward to the weekend, and our last regular season hockey game.

A page out of my NOLA travel sketchbook... I need lots of work on 'urban' sketching... the full scene overwhelms me, and makes me feel totally inadequate for the job at hand. So I pick small chunks I think I can do.

Mar29Art

This bird is part of a photo I use as wallpaper on my computer... I love the  silhouette of the heron and the sunset colors... I didn't get them quite right here...  

Took Beau and Gracie for a little walk this evening.  I think they enjoyed it... I know I did. 

Mar28Art

Another picture perfect Spring day today... a little cooler but very nice. Still trying to sort thru boxes of stuff from the office and get it stowed away. I miss having someone to talk to, my husband has started a new job training program so he's not here during the day, so it' s just me and the dogs...the parrot talks to me, but his vocabulary is very limited LOL

Mar27Art

First firing up of the grill this year, boy was that chicken good. While I was drawing the grill a pair of house finches came to the bird bath, and frolicked in the water... they were very close to me but didn't seem to notice me at all...
I finished off cleaning out the weeds from the flower bed and planted seeds... Now I wait to see what comes up.

Mar26Art

Went to a fund raiser for Katrina Shealy after work today, she's running for the SC Senate, there are NO WOMEN in the SC Senate... about time the good old boys club be invaded.. so all us ladies are supporting Katrina, we think she has a really good chance to win.

Mar25Art

My friend Dollie Pilson made this bag, it was part of a silent auction at the party yesterday and I won it. My handbook watercolor journal and my sketch kit fit in it very nicely... so I have a new Summer sketch bag.
Got a little weeding done in my flower beds, and then needed to kill a huge fire ant mound that grew up in my flower beds... once they are gone I'll be ready to plant some seeds. Two impatiens volunteers found among the weeds... so they are the lone occupants of the flower bed now.

Mar24Art

Dion did this fabulous wave page the other day, www.flickr.com/photos/diondior/7004066461/in/photostream 

and I just had to give it a try... it was very relaxing to do.  Had training meetings this afternoon, then the Sea Island ladies had a party this evening... so I needed some zen today.

Mar23Art

I was going to draw a cardinal today, as we have a gorgeous male calling and calling... he's looking for a lady cardinal, I sure hope he finds one soon. I saw this peeking round the corner tree frog on a website I visited today, I thought it was so cute I had to include him on the page... to add to the hod-podge that is page one in this book, I added my palette colors... new book, new colors.... and a new sepia colored micron pen... that I think I like very much.

Book 16

What better for a title page, than my dogwood tree blooms.  The tree burst into bloom just this week... it won't last long, but it is just gorgeous now.

Mar22Art

Wisteria is in bloom now, lovely purple blooms dripping from tangled wines wound round trees and even a telephone pole in our neighborhood.
This is the last page in this journal... I must say I'm glad to be done with it... and ready for something new.

Mar21Art

Today I got my final boxes packed, and Bobby got my computer set up.  After two trips to Best Buy for various KVM switches and VGA adapters,  I'm set up to work from home now.  With my work computer and personal computer sharing a keyboard, mouse and video monitor... and a magic switch that makes it all possible.  

Birthday dinner at Wild Wings, been a long day, tomorrow more boxes from the office to sort thru and find a home for all the contents... this is going to force me to get my desk area organized.

Mar20Art

Check out World Sparrow Day 2012 at www.worldsparrowday.org/ the sparrows that built a nest in our kitchen window are back again this Spring.  After reading about how Sparrow populations are declining, I sure hope they have better luck this year than they did last year when they lost all three of their babies.  

Mar19Art

Slept late, but had to go to work, lots going on that had to be addressed. Skipped going to hospital for blood tests, I'll do that tomorrow... too pooped to do it this morning.