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Drawing for Fun

Well, truth be told, most of the drawing I do is for fun but this is a little different.

A good friend of mine bought us both a copy of Johanna Basford’s 30 Days of Creativity so we could work on it together.

So I get the fun of drawing from prompts AND the fun of working on this at the same time as my friend.

Image description: a page from Basford’s book that shows two shelves filled with vases. Some vases have flowers in them already but there are some that I drew in black ink.

Our 27th Anniversary

It feels like my whole life and like no time at all.

I would pick him every single time.

A photo of me and Steve at our son’s graduation. We’re goofing around and he looks skeptical and I have an especially skeptical smirk.

Giving my brain a break

My brain is being a bit of a jerk today so I spent a bit of time listening to an audiobook and drawing and colouring this.

It helped a bit.

A drawing of brightly coloured shapes with thick black outlines
Image description: A drawing of shapes created by thick, black, curved lines that takes up the whole piece of paper. Each shape is coloured with a different bright coloured marker. The shapes are somewhat similar to how beach rocks end up when they wash ashore.

In Praise of Tangential Conversations

I spent the afternoon with two of my dear friends having a wonderfully relaxing conversation that went all over the place.

It was delightful to have my brain off-leash and to feel safe that I would be listened to and understood.

Our topics were broad-ranging, minuscule and enormous, superficial and nuanced – we covered it all.

It was full of ideas and connection and absolutely perfect.

I wish everyone had the same opportunity on a regular basis.

One of my favourite views

I love the way the ‘gateway’ to my yard from my patio looks.

I feel relaxed just looking at this photo.

A photo of a backyard as seen through the opening in a patio rail. There are flowers in pots on the patio.
Image description: a photo of part of my yard and patio. Near the centre of the photo is one side of the opening in my patio rail where the steps come up. On the right is the patio rail and post with some sunflowers in a pot with a beam of sunlight on them. On the left side of the photo is a green pot with purple flowers growing in it. Through the opening is the sun-dappled grass in my yard, in the middle distance an orange lawn chair and my square fire pit, and in the far background is a wooden fence with a small shelf, raised a little from the ground, with three flowerpots on it.