NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 24

Lunch with Mom today because Wednesday is Greek Food Day at our Alexis Diner! Then home and the light was nice and it wasn’t too chilly so I sat out and watched the front yard change.

Yellow light slanting
in afternoon across lawn
blue shadows sap green

red wine seems chilly
afternoon shadows deepen
with glints of sunset

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 24

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 21

Ventured out to see Mom, get sunflower seed for the birdies, get katfüd for the kitties and have some dinner. Amazing the changes in the world in a week plus. Although it was quite nippy today, sp many flowers and trees in bloom!

closed my eyes briefly
now the hills are fringed in white
lacy wild cherries

magnolia and
weeping almond and cherry
line my mother’s street

in my own garden
the first of the daffodils
are fading

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 21

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 19

I sat outside even though it wasn’t particularly sunny this afternoon. The daffodil season is short in the scheme of things.

sitting with daffodils
no words from either of us
I painted, they glowed.

eventually
drops of rain fell on my work
all yellow washes

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 19

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 12

Happy Friday the Twelfth! Very gray and rainy day here which makes the front daffodils look fluorescent out there. I do wonder sometimes about the people who drive by – I hope they bring some happiness to others every April. The bulbs may be here for a very long time.

outside in the rain
this year’s tree buds holding a
single silver drop

wind-scattered raindrops
gravity will make them
fall again

Forty year old bulbs
every year a yellow
wonder – daffodils

If I ever win the lottery, maybe I could spread more daffodil joy!

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 12

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 3

And yes, it’s a Wednesday, a cold, windy, rainy Wednesday that wants to be snowing and icing and is trying very hard. Wednesday has been hard, extra hard since 2020.

loose scraps of paper
where’s that wandering notebook
rounding up the words
typing up the words
wrangling words is hard
wednesday is hard
trying to capture
that single moment is hard
fighting the pull of the world
fighting all the time
pushing back stupidity
all the time is hard
putting the lines in order
keeping the beats in line
letting go in the moment
so many choices
where is that paper
where is the current notebook
you go first no you
five then seven five
then let me go first
wednesday is hard

In the good news department, in the past couple days I’ve gotten four! postcards from various friends which, let me tell you folks, is worth the little effort and a stamp! Send mail to everyone you know!

cold wind filled with rain
another few degrees and
winter revisits

morning messy hair
after the second coffee
now it’s afternoon

NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 3

TGIF painting

I went out this morning thinking to paint at Hand Hollow. I stopped and finished my coffee there but it was too hot to paint. Listened to the birds awhile and then went home and painted from my porch. I had my bubba packed with ice and a cool beverage.

Then I had a bit oƒ dinner and went off to Claverack for the opening reception of an exhibit, paintings of the Columbia County Plein Air Artists. This was at the Claverack Free Library. Very nice drive and nice exhibit room.

Came home and looked at the three peppers I’d gotten at the community frig in New Lebanon earlier – very picturesque! So I did a quick painting of them too.

TGIF painting

Almost the end of May

Eeks, this month really seemed to fly by. I headed out this morning determined to see if I could plop myself down on the new picnic tables at Hand Hollow – and after acquiring the required coffee etc, that’s what I did. I tried †ø keep it simple. Maybe minimalism should be the byword for next month?

Visit with Mom this afternoon to get a look at her front steps construction start and have a little visit. Came home and did this because I scored another red onion and took a big handful of peppers to try adding them to the next pickling brew. Don’t know if people don’t like hot peppers but there were a lot of them in the community free frig asking to be taken home and used.

Almost the end of May

Trying to put in what’s there

In an effort to add the rhododendron as a dark contrast I did this tonight. Too wet to finish and some tree shape problems but not horrible.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal–and soon they’ll forget my number. — Edith Armstrong

Trying to put in what’s there

Sunday, after dinner

The light is gone. I may have overdone on pasta. I went out on the porch to catch the last hummingbirds, listen to birds and visit with the plants. Now that they’re in their summer homes, sometimes they look like they’re visiting each other.

Yesterday I did a late evening paint inside of an imaginary scene and yet it looks like several places where you could stop to look at the changing light.

Sunday, after dinner

Spontaneous Watercolor Class Part Three

I’ll have to go back and watch part two again because in part three, it seemed doing wet on dry was quite different – and it worked great to make funky little edges and shapes. The continuing theme is to look at the little pieces in all orientations to see if anything pops out as useable. Quite an interesting process.

Spontaneous Watercolor Class Part Three