085:365 Visualizing Spring
In Marching Band, I was in the flag corps. We would “visualize” our routines sometimes to help us practice. We’d sit in a circle, close our eyes, and imagine our bodies and our flags in perfect unison.
Today was a nice day, but it wasn’t the Platonic ideal of vernal weather. A little too cold, a little too sharp, not quite damp enough, at least to correlate with my internal vision of Spring.
But I suppose it would feel like winter still to someone from Northern California, and like a foreign country to someone from LA.
This is a drawing inspired by long bus-rides through the Spanish country-side as it filled with poppies during spring.