Day 241 of Week 35 August 2025

Another month of summery weather might turn out to be September. Wishful thinking, methinks, helps ease in accepting the reality of fall is at our door here in New England. 

Glazed baked carrots have been on my mind more than potato salad has. Soup will fill my thoughts any day now. After that, baking bread and cinnamon rolls. 

Robust flavors and aromas are an element of autumn. Sadly, losing weight doesn’t benefit. Thus, I’m not having apple cider donuts until the first frost (as my contribution to my healthy living)

Have a Healthy & Cozy Weekend!

Drive Safe

Read about blacksmiths

Bake an eggplant  

Dance around the house

Sing to your sofa

Browse hiking boots online

Research gems found in your state

Make a wind sock

Goldenrod

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).

Finished Watercolor Drawing

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.