I love seeing these return every year.


I love seeing these return every year.
I had good intentions but things didn’t play out the way I hoped they would.
I’ll be mostly buying flowers this year and maybe sprinkling a few seeds so they’ll bloom in late summer early fall.
But we’ve had such crappy weather for so long now that I don’t even know if things would have grown yet anyway.
That’s my story and I’m sticking with it!
Do you know who *did* plant bulbs last fall?
My mother-in-law!
So I’m living vicariously through her garden.
I’m not sure if I prefer daffodils or sunflowers overall but today daffodils are my favourite.
I’m doing the Index Card a Day challenge front June 1- July 31 again this year. Even though it is only 3 days in, I feel invigorated by the process of relating to the prompts and figuring out what I can draw in response.
Yesterday’s prompt was peony and at first I felt a bit stuck because I couldn’t even remember what a peony looked like. Once I googled it, I had no idea how to draw it.
However, I decided to abandon all hope of doing it well and just aim for giving the impression of a peony with my drawing.
I think it worked out ok. 🙂
On Friday, my dear friend Elaine brought me this whirl-a-gig as a gift and I absolutely adore it (and I adore her!)
Yet, oddly enough, when I first set it up, I turned it so the beautiful shiny part was facing out into my yard and the plain back was facing the house and the patio.
I don’t know why I did that.
With that set up, someone sitting in the backyard would have the very best view of Elaine’s lovely gift.
But, from my usual reading and drawing spot on the patio, I wouldn’t be able to see the shiny colours.
And when I look out of my patio door I would just see the plain black side of the decoration.
How foolish of me.
If I am going to fully enjoy my whirl-a-gig, I need to set it up so *I* see the best bits most often.
So, today, I turned it to face me and I have been grinning at it ever since.
(I mean, every time I look that way. I have not spent the whole day grinning at an inanimate object. 😉 )