Freezing Over?

In mid February Lake Champlain 

doesn't look to me to be 

freezing over at the Upstate New York 

and Addison County, Vermont border.

Have a good week

A Weekend Out & About

Short excursion this weekend as the weather was partly sunny and warmer. A pocket size sketchbook and I had a nice sit near the shores of Lake Champlain. The different hues of the icy waters is what I study most.

On the way home, at the very top of a tree, I catch a sudden checking the side of the road glimpse of a bald eagle. There is no area to stop and take a look. Farther down Route 17, I pull into the Dead Creek boat launch lot hoping the eagle will take flight my way. The eagle did not. 

Alas, the camera I had with me is my iphone 13 with a mere 5X zoom; and, a super lousy program that does not have the feature of plugging the phone into a device to upload the pictures. Photos are store in the where is it icloud on the phone. I have to email photos to myself, then open them. The sizes are always very small and blurry. Boo to Apple iphone 13.

It was surreal to hear geese in the middle of winter. I'm guessing maybe spring is closer than expected.

The warmer weather is eerie, nice but strange. Seeing sunhine so often is a blessing. It has been a slow going for me lately. Lots of laundry and blog reading to catch up on.

Have a wonderful week!

Hello to the Last November Monday of 2023

Ice forming on Dead Creek
Addison, Vermont, 25 November 2023

No Ice on Windy Lake Champlain
At the Fort Frederic shoreline
Upstate New York 25 November 2023

Earth's Moon Over Vermont
Waxing Gibbous 94.29% 25 November 2023
Northern Hemisphere
Beaver Full Moon on 27th

Have a Lovely Week! 

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Scheduling a post means  there's no news on what's going on when you wake up, unless, of course, you can tell the future.

That said.

This morning my most unfavorite weather is sleet. Sleety slush (nice ID name) is covering everything. Thankfully, I have no errands to run today. 

I've been researching pan watercolors because they are so easy to use. Thus far, I'm staying with Winsor & Newton. Pans, maybe not. I have dry watercolor in tubes that are about the same thing. Adding up my palette of watercolor 5 ml tubes, there isn't much difference in the cost of pans versus tubes. I don't know how to figure out the volume of pigment difference. 

There was a time when I was mainly a watercolorist. I changed over years ago to acrylic because it suited the depression better.

Now that I'm lifting out of an episode of the horrid blues, I'm rethinking things in various areas of my life. 

Thankfully again, not blogging hasn't resurfaced. Art has because painting has been a real struggle.  Wardrobe is another area as I want to down size my volume of laundry. I didn't buy a beautiful sweater at a fantastic price on sale because it is chenille aka bulky lint city. There's no longer an entire wash of chenille pajamas and sweathers for me to do since I stopped buying, and tossed most of them. I also tossed old tee shirts into the rag bag. Cooking is on the list as well. When I was a stay at home married person, I daily fed my family. Sure, there were new recipes that created laughable surprises, but I cooked more good meals than bad. Frankly, that burnt pumpkin pie was rather attrative with a rustic vibe.

Today I'm filling a big soup mug with the different teas for a teast tasting. Most are repeats I forget the flavor of. The trick is to taste any of them because the 2022 covid booster took away about 90% of my sense of taste. The covid booster this year hasn't brought it back as I had hoped. However, I was able to taste tea the other day. 

I could rattle on as I hear what sounds like a plow truck. I think it is probably a sander. It is thickly slushy outside. I woke just after 4 AM EDT. Maybe a nap* is in order. 

*Nap was nice, but not long enough. ☺

For the Weekend

Along Otter Creek

The boats are gone. Most likely rowed beautifully to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum  where the creek meets open lake waters.

Visiting the falls park in Vergennes is a treat year round, but especially in the summer when folks picnic, fish, go boating, walk dogs, walk the path, and just take in lovely nature and community. 

For artists, there is docking for boats that visit each summer, sail and motor boats, wonderful painting and photography subjects. Whenever possible, ask the boater for permission to paint or photograph.

Boat people as they are called locally, are very welcome here.

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 Have a scrumptious weekend!

Pick your own strawberries

Make strawberry sorbet

Read about strawberry history

Bake a strawberry & custard pie

Mash strawberries, add teaspoon sugar, in a glass, give the mash a decent splash of quality gin

Say hi to Tanqueray or try a locally distilled gin

Enjoy!

 P.S.

Stop by to see Lisa's artwork and wish her a 600th Post Blogaversary.

Seaside Studios

Windy Views Along Lake Champlain

 I am not getting out of my vehicle.

Biting cold windy

The light green water is sunshine.

The darkers waters are cloud shadows.

Lots of rolling white caps.

As I type, a man and 3 old retrievers are walking along the lawn's lake line. 

One old dog trails the rest. The black one stops to turn to check on him.

I hope someday when I am slow older, somebody takes me for a walk,

And turns to check on me.