Welcome summer!

These are nowhere near as flavorful as freshly peeled and sliced carrots (my sister margaret can make carrots into gorgeous long, thin swirly spears) but they are handy…

Our neighbor has a lovingly maintained garden that I can see from our dining room….I get so much pleasure from his gardening skills.

A packed weekend, with not much time to draw. I managed to squeeze in a quick sketch while I was getting a haircut on saturday, and then another, this morning at the playground.

After a long day, this was a plop-down-on-the-couch and draw what you see drawing…although, very quickly, I stopped thinking about what I was seeing and started goofing around, with line (how do I make it more interesting?–begin a blind contour portion) with color (what happens if I put the “wrong” color here?) and transparancy (what if I can see through one object, to another?)

Was invited to dear friends for dinner and a night of conversation and crafting. They have a beautiful, familiar view from the top of Duboce Avenue, (we used to live in the apartment below theirs) so I waited until dusk to do my daily sketch.

…feeling a bit better today.

I still have Theo’s amazing drawing tacked up downstairs in my studio. I am working on a large painting based on the drawing. Here are some of the ideas.
PS I am a day late in making this post as we are now ALL sick with the flu..

Hooray! The jasmine I planted a year ago has finally decided to take off! It’s climbing and beginning to bloom!

Today is hot, and it seems natural that the end of the day might be marked by a big thunderstorm. Instead, we’ll have fog. It’s dramatic to watch the fog rushing overhead in the late afternoon, but I miss the anticipation and quiet as the skies darken before a big summer thunderstorm.