It Is There Somewhere

Picture it. You see an interesting sky but you’re all buckled up ready to get back on the road and don’t want to get out of your vehicle. So you put your cell phone out the window, point up towards the sky and take photographs from various angles.   

This is how I did with the in back of me shots. 


Yep, there are times when 
what is there, is there.

I did manage to find the sky.


Going through my zippered carry portfolio, I had an unpleasant realization of a depression side effect…unfinished and forgotten projects. The feeling of loss is strange when there’s nothing gone but time. The stack of cut watercolor paper is still in there.

The abstract is a finished artwork I haven’t seen in a long time. Looking on the back reading math notes written in maybe 1999 is surreal. I used diagrams I made as study tools.
Math notes on back
of the abstract

Abstract detail

Yesterday I had a lunch and sketch at the Crown Point Historic Area. I added watercolor at home. 


The ink and watercolor drawings are a pleasant re-discovery. I added more color on all of them. Two need to have impressions pressed out. I will moisten the back and place the dent under weight enough to remove them (see diagonal line).



Summer Photographs: A Country Road

 Summer doesn’t feel like summer without two lane country roads, bordered by cornfields, to travel down. 

Route 17 is such a road. The 40.409 miles (65.032km) stretches from Route 100 in Waitsfield to west and ending in Addison at the border of Upstate NewYork by Lake Champlain. The scenery from out of the Green Mountains to the flat land of the Champlain Valley is spectacular. There is a vibe if traveling through a part of New England’s geological history.





Day 234 of Week 34 August 2025

 


Starting August with a celebratory attitude is actually a good way to begin any month. Last year I celebrated the entire month of August. This year I am doing the same.

Think about it. In the month you were born, those 4 weeks were monumental for you. For the first time, you breathed air, drank fluids, sneezed, farted, had hiccups, used your voice, cried, laughed, looked at people, were held by your love ones. Are those events not worthy of a month of celebration!? I think they are.
 
Have a Happy Weekend!

Celebrate You
Browse cowboy shirts online
Make black bean chili
Read about horses
Listen to Willie Nelson songs
Draw a herd of cattle
Dance the 2 step
Tell a bale of hay a story