More Green!

There's a second patch of sprouts out front. This one is less protected but no less green and springy looking. It makes me happy to look down and see those little clusters of green leaves bravely peeking out. I keep waiting for the crocuses to bloom. I know the rabbits will eat them right away but I still like seeing them even if it's just for a minute.

 

I knew that the squirrels would find out I filled the suet nuggets feeder yesterday and they did. This one spent so much time on there that it jumped down for a drink before going back for more. Another squirrel, the acrobatic one, spent time on the cob corn, denuding one of the cobs while dangling from its back legs and curling up to nibble one kernel at a time.

 

A Downy Woodpecker female visited the suet cakes for a little nibble now that they're full too. She stayed for a while and made quite a divot in the cake.

 

After a quick lunch I went down to Zambaldi to visit DS. He was brewing a new hazy IPA and trying a new hops technique. He explained it but I didn't retain much of the information. Here he's pouring the hops in to let them steep which I guess is a different way of adding them. And I got a taste of the new smoked beer he made. I liked it. It was smoky and smooth and kind of sweet. If I drank beer, I might drink that. Maybe.

 

It was a good thing I taped two pieces of watercolor paper to my plexiglass board because I painted trees bigger than I should have. I like the way the trunk looks on the tree on the left but the one on the right is supposed to be a tree in fog and I don't see it. It just looks too pale to me.

 

Then we painted another foggy tree, I don't know why, and after that an autumn tree which I think turned out okay. She has much bigger paper than I have so she can paint all of the trees on one page. Or maybe she painted the first three on one page and the last one on a new page. Anyway, my paper is smaller or I paint bigger so I used two sheets. None of that matters. I'm sure you don't care.

 

I had a critique Zoom this morning with cda. She had lots of good comments for me. I can't wait to get the submission back with her notes so I can fix things up and move on.

That was pretty much my day. I got to do the afternoon school run so I saw LC and OJ for a few minutes. I really like seeing them even for a little while. I also got my Girl Scout cookie order today. Most of them went right down into the freezer but I did open a package of Lemonades. Mm, they're so good and lemony.

--Barbara