So That's What That Was

For this last week I've been catching movement out of the corner of my eye when I'm sitting at the table but when I look out the patio door there's nothing there. Today I found out what it was. A bunny. Today it stopped on the patio step and posed for a moment so I could take a picture. 

 

I felt bad that I hadn't drawn for a couple days so today I drew. This is a Desert Rose. Never heard of it. Never saw it before. But it wasn't too hard to draw. I might have to look it up to find out about the weird trunk stem thing. It looks like some alien life form. And I have no idea what those toenail-looking things are at the base but they were on the directions so I put them on.

 

Then I thought I'd paint too. So I booted up the iPad to the next flower in the 31-day challenge and it was Carnations. When I was walking out of the grocery this morning I walked past the flower display and smelled carnations so it was appropriate that I paint some today. They were fun to paint although I didn't plan my space well since the red/orange one is kind of smooshed on the left edge. Oh well, I can try again. As BF used to say, this is not a graded course.

 

I turned the Christmas cactus pot around and was able to get almost all of the flowers and buds in one picture. It's never had this many on at once in its whole life with me. I'm glad I gave it a new pot, etc. It's happier now. 

 

I got the information today about the Novel Intensive I've signed up for. We're having a meet-and-greet on Wednesday afternoon on Zoom and then we'll send out our first submission. I had a brainstorm. I saved my manuscript version 2 in a new file and took out all of the chapter headings then moved the text up close to the previous text so there's only a few spaces between chapters. That way I'll be able to send more words on 20 pages and get feedback on more of the manuscript. Pretty smart, eh?

It was so luxurious to wake up naturally, not to the buzzing of my cell phone. I don't have to set an alarm for at least a week. If I get up between 7 and 8, I'm happy. That gives me time to eat, play Wordle, do yoga, and get dressed way before noon when it would be embarrassing to still be in my jammies.

--Barbara