Today's Lily

I went out to chase a few weeds (my Grandma Angermeier always said that) and saw that the patio day lily is still blooming. Well, today's day lily was blooming. There were a couple old flowers I plucked off and there are a couple more to come. It's such a pretty color.

 

Representing the front of the house is another Dad's rose. This one is leaning up against the house where it has to be broiling hot in the middle of the sunny day but it seems to be happy there.

 

Aren't ferns pretty? There are lots of them in the same patio bed as the day lily and they're thriving. There are two types, one of them is Ostrich Fern and I forget what the other one is, but I love the way they look. And the way they come back year after year with no effort on my part.

 

A pair of House Finches spent a little time dipping their beaks in the grape jelly. I'll have to go out tomorrow and fill it up because it looks a little low. We had a surprise rain shower an hour ago so I'm sure the jelly left is watered down. I'll fix that tomorrow too.

 

Today's drawing prompt was Fish. I like drawing fish. I like coloring fish. So here are the fish I drew and colored.

 

I also made time to draw a gratitude journal page. I drew one for yesterday this morning and one for today after supper. I did the same thing last Monday and then didn't draw one for a week. I'm not even going to talk about how I need to do better. We all know I should but I'm not making promises.

 

In writing news, I took the pages of manuscript analysis I printed off yesterday and went through the manuscript comment by comment adding little scenes and embellishments so that it is closer to what the analysis recommends. I did ignore one suggestion. I even wrote a note in red that I'm not changing it because I like it the way it is. I'm the author and what I say goes.

 

I cast on a new sock. I'm meeting knitting friends on Thursday evening and need something I can knit on while chatting. The name of the colorway of the yarn is Iron Pyrite and I'm excited to see how the yarn knits up.

 

This morning I had a critique zoom with cda. She gave me her comments on the last couple chapters of my novel manuscript, The Summer of Blue-Black Nights (working title). Next time I'll share the first 20 pages or so of Christmas at The Seaview. I'm excited to share it because I'm convinced that it's perfect. It isn't, of that I can be sure, but allow me to wallow in my delusion for a week before reality comes crashing down next Monday.

--Barbara