Pieces of April sketch

This is a collage I drew one day while working, not a very busy day... Anyway, while I was drawing this up I thought of that song back in the 70s or 80s ~ Pieces of April ~ remember that? I'm not sure if it was by Three Dog Night or Chicago or maybe some other band. I'm going to have to go check my albums, yes I still have them and yes they still sound better than tapes or CDs.

Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak sketch

After running for groceries and a few other errands I grabbed my stuff and went to the Garden of the Gods and sketched this from an overlook. It was a very bright and warm day and I actually got sunburned on one arm! I don't know if it was the brightness of the sun on the blank page that caused me to color this darker or what... But it was nice to get out and do some sketching.

Sunshine!!!!

We've had a couple of days of clouds, some rain and snow - thank you Lord! We needed that! Today is supposed to be 75 and I assume sunny! Then we have another front coming in tomorrow. Possibly more moisture, which we desperately need! Hope you all have a beautiful day!

And more Calla lillies

I had to do it, I had to get some of the white Calla lillies. Like I said I've never seen the plant for sale, maybe I wasn't paying attention but I think these are so cool! They last a long time too! I'll have to do some more studying and see about putting them in the garden for the summer and then repotting them in the fall and maybe cutting some new tubers off for new plants...

Calla Lillies

I have always loved houseplants and I love the flowering kind so when I saw these advertised at a local store I had hubby run get some. When he called and said they had purple I was so surprised! And of course that's the one's I had him get. Now to see if I can keep it alive and get it to re-flower next year..

hmmmm

This is a little magnifying lens that I've been having to use lately to read all the small print in Dan Gregory's books. One of the bad things about getting older (did I really say that?~ I may be getting older but I refuse to give up the childlike awe of looking at life and all that is in it!) is the change in eyesight. When I bead or make jewelry I wear one of those magnifying visors. I could probably get away with just drug store magnifying glasses if I didn't have a stigmatism that seems to be getting a lot worse lately. I never really noticed it until this past winter when I looked at the moon without my glasses and it was oval - I knew that was not right! Then I'd look through my glasses and it was round, then I understood what this stigmatism thing is all about. Oh well, as long as I can see with glasses I'm good to go.

Another landscape

I don't really do too many landscapes, they intimidate me. But I love sketching in the Garden of the Gods. The Indians believed this was a sacred and magical place, I agree. It really is beautiful here.

A surprise visitor!

Last Tuesday we had a surprise visitor in our yard ~ a bear! Now we've heard of other people in the neighborhood having been visited by them or seen them but we had not. When hubby went to put the trash out it had knocked over the big tote and pulled trash out. Hubby picked all that up and left for work. I was thinking it was just a raccoon. Then I let our golden retriever out... The bear had drug a bag of trash over to a corner of the yard and was chowing down. Of course our dog had to go over and bark and bark at it. She got within 1 yard of it and I was just worried about her getting attacked so I went after her, trying to get her to back off (later realizing how stupid that was). Luckily the bear was small and not large, possibly an older cub. The bear climbed up on the fence and when our dog would still not stop barking it left, later to be seen and photographed in another yard... I was too busy trying to save the dog to even think of getting a photo. I had to google a picture to draw a bear to commemorate the occasion.