Hawk!

When I was eating my breakfast I heard a noise outside the patio door and looked out to see this. It's a Cooper's Hawk that had just caught a Sparrow on the patio. I'm sorry that the bird bought it but I was thrilled to see the hawk.

 

Here's another shot of the spring bulbs that are looking glorious out front. I'm so tempted to pick them and bring them in but then they'd die faster than usual so I'm just going out to visit them a couple times a day.

 

I spent most of the day reading through the manuscript and making small changes. Like making contractions and changing pronouns, little things that will make the book easier to read. Oh, and I fixed a couple place name changes that didn't all get changed. I got to page 168 of 281, so in 113 pages I'll email it to my Kindle and go through it again. It'll be fun!

 

There isn't much to say about today's watercolor. Painting it got me out of my desk chair every hour or so when I figured the paint had dried on the previous step but I seriously don't think it's anywhere near my favorite one. I will say that the example in the book isn't a whole lot different than mine but mine has more hard edges than hers. Anyway, I'm glad it's over and I can turn the page to find what's next.

 

It was such a beautiful day. Got up into the 70s and was mostly sunny and breezy. I took a walk up to the stop sign and back and felt like I walked to China and back. I need to walk more. A lot. I'm too easy on myself.

There was a baby bunny on the patio just before I came back here and I tried to take its picture but had to turn off the flash and so I jiggled the camera too much and it was blurry. So imagine a tiny, teacup size bunny on here.

--Barbara