I spent a lot of time throughout the day watching recordings of the Q&A sessions from this week's Amazon Ad Challenge. I was hoping to pick up answers to questions that I had but everything he spoke about were things that I already knew. Ah well.
After dropping Porter off, I went to the grocery and did the shopping for the next bout of Investment Cooking which will start tomorrow. I know that I won't get the cooking done before Tuesday night to take out the trash but it isn't reliably warm enough to have the trash stink up the garage just yet. I spent $141 which I figure isn't too much considering that I'll be making 6-8 weeks of suppers.
I realized this morning that I'd tucked the book 365 Days of Drawing on a shelf and stopped doing a page a day. Bad Barbara. So I pulled it out and flipped to the next page where I was asked to draw an iris with colored pencils. My colored pencils aren't as richly colored as the ones they used for the example but I don't think it turned out too badly.
Then on the next page of Draw 500 Fabulous Flowers I found this lovely arch of what looks to me like Bleeding Hearts. I know it's not as colorful but I'm really enjoying drawing these flowers with just an ink pen.
Late in the afternoon I looked out to see a male Cardinal sharing the platform feeder with a pair of House Finches. Just as I got the camera up and on to record the oddity, the Cardinal flew off. I guess he wasn't willing for anyone to see him sharing his seed.
I didn't paint today. I just didn't find the time or the energy. I did take a walk around the block and nearly froze my fingers off. It got up to the mid-40s with a sharp little breeze, not very springy. Oh, I should have carried up the slow cooker this afternoon. Well, I can do it in the morning, I guess.
--Barbara
1 comment:
Are Porter's eyes really that blue?? Amazing. I never think about dogs eyes maybe being a different color. But he is, after all, a special dog. Can't wait to see what you're cooking this time.
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