wednesday
This is the first time I've felt I've had enough time to sit down and look at pictures or write anything. If I don't get up at 5:30 in the morning (like I tend to do in the wintertime) then I don't have enough time for morning computer stuff on days that I go somewhere. Monday I dropped Hazel off with her mom and grandma in Stoneboro and then I drove over to Leeper with Candy so I could check on Chloe's house and go hiking at the North Country Trail near there, and then that night I drove back over to Stoneboro to pick Hazel up. Many pictures and the rest of the last couple days:
On the NCT you walk though an area with a beaver dam. This is Steeplebush (I had to look it up).
So many! And I don't remember ever seeing it anywhere else.
A pine-type tree that seemed very different. There were only a few of them there.
Yesterday I drove Hazel back home to Pittsburgh. That kind of city/interstate driving always makes me feel exhausted and it took the rest of the day to recover. In the evening walked the dogs and then hung out in my goatshed and finished an eight inch sized tray. It feels good today to not have anything planned. I can look at pictures and paint.
Here's a pic of Jan from a walk we took last week to the Kennerdell Overlook - with an old drilling truck left to rot in the woods.
I think this is called Chrysomphalina. Very bright orange, glowy - we saw it from a long way away.
The standard pic of the Allegheny River and Kennerdell but July and a hazy day.
As long as I'm showing older pictures here's some garlic that Dave and I did up last week. Not a very good braiding job at all but neither of us had the patience to rewatch the youtube about it that we watched last year. We did a better job last summer.
And art-a-day for yesterday and today. It might be done. "Box It In - Change It". It seems very minimal but I'm liking simplicity better all the time.
Plans for the rest of today: spend time in the mosaic shed and walk the dogs, maybe do the dishes. Yay. Life is simple.
On the NCT you walk though an area with a beaver dam. This is Steeplebush (I had to look it up).
So many! And I don't remember ever seeing it anywhere else.
A pine-type tree that seemed very different. There were only a few of them there.
Yesterday I drove Hazel back home to Pittsburgh. That kind of city/interstate driving always makes me feel exhausted and it took the rest of the day to recover. In the evening walked the dogs and then hung out in my goatshed and finished an eight inch sized tray. It feels good today to not have anything planned. I can look at pictures and paint.
Here's a pic of Jan from a walk we took last week to the Kennerdell Overlook - with an old drilling truck left to rot in the woods.
I think this is called Chrysomphalina. Very bright orange, glowy - we saw it from a long way away.
The standard pic of the Allegheny River and Kennerdell but July and a hazy day.
As long as I'm showing older pictures here's some garlic that Dave and I did up last week. Not a very good braiding job at all but neither of us had the patience to rewatch the youtube about it that we watched last year. We did a better job last summer.
And art-a-day for yesterday and today. It might be done. "Box It In - Change It". It seems very minimal but I'm liking simplicity better all the time.
Plans for the rest of today: spend time in the mosaic shed and walk the dogs, maybe do the dishes. Yay. Life is simple.