Our anniversary

Here's sample of pix from our anniversary yesterday, all by BB (the only camera
I've downloaded so far.

We rode our motorcycles 165-mile round trip up to the Black River above Port Huron near the Canadian border, and hiked around the bluff and river flats where sometimes, the nettles were neck high and poison ivy rampant.  The black river was lookingt mighty borwn from all the
rains. The trails up the bluff were steep and difficult.  We saw a heron, but no aniamls other than squirrels and a muskrat.  Lots of birds.  We came back via back roads, making several stops.  When we got home, I made Seafood Paella with real saffron, first time ever. It came out great.

first attempt

My first ever attempt at Mrdoobs.

Two Quick Sketches

A watercolor sketch at the Piner, where we spent a long Memorial Day
weekend, a marker sketch of BB at dinner last night.

wild mushrooms

Last year, we found morels at the Pinery.  This year, things were
farther along, and though we searched, we found none.  We did find
wild mushrooms though, and ate them.

A Swelling of Sound

A Swelling of Sound .This is a collaboration with Steve and his wife.
They did the string print and I fiddled with it.

I won a book at Thoughts in progress!

I won a book at Thoughts in Progress. YAY! It's the third book I won. Triple YAY! And the time spent there is worthwhile because I learn about books, which is a favorite subject of mine. The posts there are very interesting.

Twenty Pounds!

I didn't want to post about it until I was sure it was real, but I've lost 20.5 pounds since I started my new new food plan. (Otherwise known as a diet, except this needs to be life-long).

I am not, however, sleeping well, still. I was hopeing the diet would help.

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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." Einstein, from a letter to a friend in 1901 when he was 22

"The fist is more than a sum of its fingers." Margaret Atwood

Mary

Blind drawing, painted

I did a blind drawing of BB last night and painted it with gouache,
following only the lines I'd drawn.

Lonely Street, 3 AM

"Lonely Street, 3 AM," is done in gouache on arches 140 lb watercolor paper. It's from the homeless series I'm working on. The paper is is bigger than the size of my scanner. so it's slightly blurred because it was lifted off the platen and also, slightly less purple than it really is. I don't know why the scanner didn't pick up the purple.

If you click on the painting, it will enlarge significantly.

I have been too busy to do any blogging lately, so sorry.

Howling

Some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down, they can't ever stop howling." Margaret Atwood, the Blind Assassin