Summertime…

And the living is easy…

Sorry I have that song stuck in my head.

 I just came in from sneaking around watering my garden. Why? you may ask.. Well, it’s not because we have restrictions on, in fact I live near the Mississippi and after the record amount of snow melt and rain this year, my well is overflowing. No, like the coward that I am, I was sneaking around avoiding my neighbor. He’s a nice elderly man who claims that I gave his yard Creeping Charlie.  I don’t have any in my yard but nevertheless he says it is so. He also has a thing about people watering.  I have an overflowing well and rain barrels but he’s not the logical sort.  99% of the time I find him amusing, the other 1%, well let’s just say it’s a good thing my mother made me learn my manners or I would be asking people to raise bail money for me.

It’s been a muggy hot summer so far. I haven’t done much painting wise, though in my head I’ve created masterpieces! This is a small 3×5 canvas of the backside and roofs of Rock Island , Illinois. It’s acrylic.

Well I should go find Dummy, he’s off gallivanting around. I think he may be trying to escape.

Drawing Dummy Adventures

I’m in a bit of a painting funk right now.

So I took my Drawing Dummy out and told him to pose.

Well he took right off and led me on a merry chase.

“Here I am!” he said while climbing a pile of lumber…

I nearly caught him by the garden but he hid under a Gerber Daisy…

I went to grab him but he was so enchanted by a marigold, I didn’t want to interrupt.

Then he saw me and hid in the Purple Salvia!!!

Then he was gone…

So I can’t draw today.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

 

And now for something completely different…

After a long visit from some in-laws, my brain is too fried to paint. Or even put my studio where someone was sleeping back together.  So here are some photos of how I entertained myself while visiting Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia with my sisters last year.  I did not find any fossils (my sisters did though) so I decided to play with the rocks instead. 

 

 

 

 I have a painting in my head so I’ll be back to normal soon, whatever normal is.