The drawing prompt today was Bags. I had this little gift bag from Easter handy so I drew it. I tried to draw the tissue paper in the bag and got part of it but the other piece of it eluded me. I did a lot of erasing and a small amount of cursing.
A Downy Woodpecker visited the suet cakes feeder this afternoon and was barely visible. I took a few shots and this one is the best. You can almost see the bird's head. Birds are so independent, they just don't pose.
I bought some navel oranges yesterday and cut one in half to put in the Oriole feeder. I also spooned a little grape jelly in there too. Years ago I made a note in the Audubon bird book to put the Oriole feeder out the first week in May and tomorrow's May 1 so I did. Now I just need those beautiful black and orange birds to show up. Watch, they'll come next week when I'm at The Clearing and I'll miss them.
For my last watercolor before I let my brushes dry so I can pack them to leave on Sunday I painted figs. I like the way they turned out, especially the green gold and green of the skins. The shadows are a little hard-edged but I like the color of them.
I drew a gratitude journal page for yesterday this morning. I was grateful for MB, my cleaner coming, for my books arriving (which I bookmarked this morning), and for my Zoom with cda.
I got cda's comments today so I'll be able to go through them and make changes in my manuscript. I won't take all of them but the ones I agree with I'll accept. It's good to have someone else look at your writing because if you're like me, you think every word is a pearl. And it isn't. Trust me.
You should have gotten an email with a new Substack story today. I hope you like it, it was a whole lot of fun to write.
--Barbara
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Your Substack story this time was interesting. I recognized those people right away. Sounds like a very vivid memory for you but I doubt that "Kris" part really happened!
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