Archive for April, 2009

Pending. . .

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Sugar Bowl Study with LiatrusMonday nights I don’t work. The work day is generally grueling with all sorts of left-over bits in my inbox, and then I have other commitments. It’s a good night to unwind, do laundry, pay bills and clean the kitchen from that late night experimental dinner dish you tried out on your friends. You know, the one with roasted barley? It requires a lot of clean-up.

Anyway, the drawing currently on the easel is an 18″ x 24″ landscape set at sunset in Southwest Harbor. There’s a huge tree (very reminiscent of “Hunters in the Snow” sans crows), a grassy bank, an odd house, some water and a little snow. It’s taking forever.

Here, instead, I present a little drawing that required pushing a handful of flowers into an old pot and  two days work and is none the worse, I think,  for brevity.

Pick Up Sticks

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

pickup sticks

Random 3-year old girl, walking down the road with her parents: “What are you playing?”

Me: “Pick-up sticks!”

Both of us: laugh uproariously at our joke.

Parents, walking away: “Now you know we can’t do that at home. . .”

The truck makes an excellent wheelbarrow. I brought three loads (this is number two, when I realized I should be documenting this) down to the lower driveway. Next week, pictures of fire!

The tree in the picture below is part of next week’s work .  A 40′ spruce broke right at it’s middle and the top corkscrewed itself far enough into the ground that I won’t be able to move the trunk till the thaw runs a little deeper.

blow-down