It is friday night. The kids are in bed. Bird is on his way home. Finally, silence! A glass of wine and some rice crackers to tide me over to dinner.

This is a mustard pot that I use for salt. This is also my new sketchbook. I really like the paper!

Daylight savings–a cup if tea at 4pm while the sun began to get lower in the sky…this is strathmore postcard paper and I don’t like it as much as what I used on the last drawing–but it’s all a vast improvement from the moleskine paper!

My third Moleskine notebook is filled and I am waiting for a new watercolor notebook to arrive from the Sharon Art Center in NH. This is on watercolor paper–so nice to be away from that horrible moleskine sizing!

Made a spinach salad tonight with avocado, apple and bacon. And I want to wish Ellen a very happy 38th! I love you!

I spend a lot of time waiting out here for my daughter to be “dismissed” from school. I’d like to do a painting of this next year, when I have both kiddoes there.

Clunky image, but I love garlic.

Moleskine paper driving me crazy! I don’t like the sizing at all. I am now in hot pursuit of an affordable, small watercolor paper journal to continue this daily practice.

Waiting in Montclair for a woman to show up for a prearranged halloween costume purchase. She was late, so I was thankful to have my book–without colors, but fun to have this natural frame around the mountain road behind me.