This Is The Way We Wash Our Clothes...

I was going to wait until tomorrow, the official laundry day of my family, but in a rebel move I went downstairs, sorted the clothes, and did the wash today. I know! I didn't take any pictures of it because there's nothing photogenic about doing laundry. I just thought you'd like to know that.

 

Here's a female Cardinal on the platform feeder. She's kind of hard to see but I guess the females have to be more camouflaged so they're protected on the nest. She didn't stay long and didn't really pose well.

 

Then this Goldfinch showed up. Look how yellow it is! There don't seem to be any olive green blotches on it like the ones I saw last week. It's all pretty in yellow and black.

 

I noticed another stick I missed taking to the curb yesterday so I went out to get it while the wash sloshed around and found a huge branch that landed in the lilac bush and took some maneuvering to get out of there but I managed. While walking back to the house I saw a bunch of tiny bees swarming around the daffodils and hyacinths so I went inside for the camera. When I came out all of the tiny bees had moved on but this big bumblebee was there. Score!

 

Today I drew buttons. I went downstairs and grabbed a handful of them and tossed them on the table to draw. This is another time that I liked what I drew when I drew it better than I like it in the picture.

 

But I'm very happy with today's watercolor replay. I still didn't get the background colors as dark as the example but I like the shapes of the flowers and the centers better than yesterday's effort.

 

And I drew a gratitude journal page after supper but before I turned on the TV to watch episodes of White Collar on Netflix. I just started Season 4 and I know there are only 6 seasons so I'm over halfway through and already dreading the end. Today I was grateful for finishing the laundry (not folding but laundering) and having chocolate ice cream for dessert.

 

I booted up the manuscript but didn't write anything new. I feel stuck. Maybe it's time to email it to my Kindle and make some notes. It reads like a book on there so I get results when I'm stuck.

--Barbara