I See The Moon...

And the moon sees me... down through the leaves of the old oak tree. Please let the light that shines on me, shine on the ones I love. Okay, that's enough singing for one night. Durwood used to sing that when he saw the moon and taught it to our kids. When DD was a tiny thing and she saw the moon, she'd stop, clasp her hands in front of herself, and stand gazing at the moon and singing. It's one of my favorite memories. Tonight's moon photo is blurry because I'm not good at holding a long exposure without a tripod but I think it's interesting because the moon seems to be shining over the neighbor's pine tree like the star on a Christmas tree.

I went to the birdseed store this afternoon and learned that those aren't suet pellets, they're suet nuggets. Pellets evidently means the same as rabbit raisins or poo. Oops. I've been told. When I got home I went out and filled all the feeders and wasn't even in the house yet when the Sparrows arrived in a flock. They stuck around so I got the camera up and took a picture. There's a Sparrow on the round feeder, one or two on the nuggets feeder, and one on the suet cakes. I couldn't get the dozen of them on the ground in the shot. The Sparrows were very hungry today and they didn't care who was in the way.

This morning I painted the next thing in the Watercolor Wildflowers book. It's Wild Violets. Aren't they pretty? I even like the way the leaves turned out. Watch, tomorrow's watercolor will be a total flop but I'm taking today as a win.

A Chickadee landed on the round feeder and stayed there for such a long time that I decided to try drawing it. Naturally I didn't finish before it flew away so I had to call up a picture on my phone but I think it isn't too bad.

 

This morning I saw that there's one biggish bud on the Christmas cactus and a few itty bitty ones too. I never know if I'm supposed to water it when the buds start coming or not. Maybe I'll give it a big drink tomorrow to encourage it.

I realized this afternoon that I didn't have anything on the needles to knit tomorrow at Friday Night Knitting so I looked at patterns and yarn and decided to knit another hat. This time I went down and wound up a couple skeins of this pretty avocado green alpaca. It's so soft. This will be one luxurious hat to wear.

And I even managed a gratitude journal page today. I was going to put yoga on it again because I kind of enjoyed it this morning but I ran out of room because I drew too big. Oh well.

I think I've learned a writing secret this week. Tuesday, Wednesday, and today I signed onto a Zoom room through Ad School called Page Pals. It's a silent space for working on writing or ad making or any writing related thing you need to do. I don't know what makes it different than any other time of day because I live alone and it's always silent when I'm writing but I've managed to write over a thousand words each evening. I haven't stayed the whole 2 hours because it starts at five o'clock and I get hungry but I stay until I've reached a good stopping spot. Tonight it was 1415 words. And tonight I introduced a crabby, demanding character checking in that is going to be fun to write. Poor Rose.

It was sunny today. Sunny but windy. I'll take the windy if we can have sunny. I purely hate that it starts getting dark at 4 o'clock in the afternoon but I keep thinking that in just a few weeks, okay, almost 6 weeks, it'll start getting light again. I want to Spring Forward and stay sprung instead of Falling Back into the darkness.

--Barbara