And It Rained

But I took DS's advice and mowed the lawn at 10am instead of 6pm like I was planning to and, while I got very hot, very tired, and very very sweaty, the job is done. In the afternoon it was clouding over and getting dark so that's when I went out to take flower pictures because I forgot earlier. The day lilies on the side of the backyard are blooming with enthusiasm. I'm surprised they aren't blurry because the wind was really blowing when I took this.

 

Dad's rose is blooming on more canes than just the first one now. This flower was standing up so pretty and proud. It was waving around in the wind too but my camera is fast enough that it captured it clearly.

 

I saw a flash of white on the suet nuggets feeder and saw a Hairy Woodpecker on there. They look just like Downy Woodpeckers only bigger and their beak is much longer. I doubted myself for a minute but then the next guy showed up.

 

He's a little blurry and rumpled up because he'd gotten rained on but it's a Downy Woodpecker on the suet cakes. Much smaller than the Hairy. Much.

 

Because it was raining I chose Water as today's drawing prompt. But I didn't draw rain, I drew three glasses with water in them. I'd have used watercolors but my sketchbook pages won't tolerate it so colored pencils it is.

 

I spent some time figuring out how to and then writing an elevator pitch for Horizon. I can't figure out why it doesn't sell so I thought maybe I need a new pitch. Now I have to memorize it and we'll see how it goes in July at the Art Garage book fair.

Then I took the manuscript analysis I got yesterday and read through it, not skimmed it like I did yesterday, and started working to fix the yellow tagged places that were "concerns." I avoided the red tagged "major concern" places. I'll tackle those once I get the easier fixes in place. I read the green tagged "working well" parts a few times just to feel good about them.

I'm glad I mowed even though I purely detest doing it. Now I don't have to dread it for at least a week. I'll keep doing it until I really physically can't, not just until I don't like it. Which I already do. A shower is very nice when I'm all disgustingly sweaty. That's one good thing about it.

--Barbara