Thursday, July 26, 2018

photo dump


Not making much headway yet on new work, mostly just in the planning stage of a few pieces. Probably won't get the wax out til Monday so it won't be spread out over the weekend. But! I have been doing my drawing a day, for two days anyway, still time today.

Tuesday's drawing...


Wednesday's drawing...


Some photos that have been piling up...

the ginger has finally started blooming, late and not very profusely, just so hot, hard to keep it watered



I've been seeing newly hatched anoles but never have my camera handy, I did have it though when I spotted this young preying mantis, a male perhaps or an immature female


Saturday night's sunset...


Monday evening's sky...


foggy Wednesday morning...


clouds over the cotton field...


white orchid tree blooms...


lost baby shoe in a parking lot...






15 comments:

  1. I wondered what your flower sketch was -- then I found the flower in your photos. I don't think I've ever seen that. I don't remember it, anyway. Your fog and your clouds are beautiful. I managed to run into a little early morning dew last week, but it required getting up *really* early. I just saw that they've upped our rain chances for Monday-Tuesday to 40-60%. I might pay attention to that. When they say 20% it really means, "Now we're covered in case someone's picnic gets ruined."

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    1. I had never seen one like this before, more familiar with the more common purple variety of orchid tree, or since. I used to go to a friend's home once a week for yoga (she was from India) and she had this small tree in her front yard. She potted up a volunteer and gave it to me. I keep mine in a pot for now. it may just stay there. as near as I can discover it's nomenclature is bauhinia variegata alba.

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  2. Dang. You are an artist. I always know this but somehow, it always surprises me too. I tend to think of you and me as such similar women but obvious, in some ways we are not. We may grow the same things but I sure can't make art of them.

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    1. more than one way of being artistic. we are more similar than not I think.

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  3. LOVE your drawings so much! Photos are wonderful , loving the bug and the cotton clouds over the cotton field. We are not allowed to water our yards- water conservation in the wettest part of the universe, damn liberals...- but today I watered- Yard, trees and rhodys are grateful.

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  4. This is all utterly wonderful.

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  5. Your drawings and photos are lovely, Ellen. I know you are anxious to get back to work on your art, and I hope you get the time to do it now that you are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel with your home repairs.

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  6. Well, wow. Just wow. What amazing skies you have there - I love the feather drawing.

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  7. Thank you for everything here. A Blue Jay feather? Do you still practice yoga? Thank you for visiting my blog.

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    1. yes, blue jay feather and yes, still do yoga...class twice a week and a short daily practice in the mornings 3 or 4 other days of the week. and I enjoy your blog, very thought provoking.

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  8. Lovely drawings - and those sky picture are wonderful! Love the foggy one. I miss seeing the fog in Ohio. I guess we might get it here too, in the fall, but last fall I was housebound. We'll see!

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  9. some really amazing photos there, Ellen! Great job!

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  10. Your post touches my heart. . . such small, ordinary and sacred things captured in your photos. Thank you!

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  11. Love your photos ~ with all the photos you take you have the makings of a beautiful book;)

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