Went outside about two of clock yesterday and could hear the distinctive call of a kite so I walked out from under the big oak where I could get a view of the sky and maybe see the kite. It was there chasing after one of our resident red shouldered hawks. They circled around lazily, the hawk didn’t seem concerned but the kite was definitely following behind calling out and then they finally flew off out of sight. Didn’t have my phone with me but probably wouldn’t have been able to get a picture anyway. I imagine the kite was protecting a nest.
I solved the question of what to do next by getting out the water color pencils that came with a larger art materials set, a birthday gift from my sister in law, and the scribble sticks (water soluble pigments) that my friend Delores sent me that she wasn’t using. I just dabbled with them to see what they did at first and then did two little drawings. This one with the pencils
and this one with the scribble sticks.
Not sure what I’m going to do with them but a friend ordered some blank watercolor note cards that she did little paintings on so I think I’ll order some and play with the pencils and sticks before I think about whether or not I want to try a serious painting with them.
We’re getting a little rain right now and the dog is her usual neurotic mess. I told her to calm down, it was just a little rain, no lightning, no thunder. No sooner were the words out of my mouth than thunder rolled through. Thanks, powers that be.
I had quite a surprise today. I average about 250 - 300 page views per post some get more than that, some less. The last 6 posts bar the very last one averaged 273. When I checked my blog dashboard after I got home from SHARE this afternoon the last post had 695 (and counting) page views! The only thing I can figure is the ‘weird aging’ in the title somehow aligned with a search topic cause I’m pretty sure ’art stuff’ and ‘flowers’ are fairly benign. Most by far were referrals from google but there were several hundred from domains I have no idea what they are. Almost 700 page views is a lot but it doesn’t come close to the number I got when I published my post of “S is for…sex” when I was going the alphabet posts. Anyway, that one got me flagged as porn for awhile because the illustrating picture is a very graphic representation (in my defense it’s a picture of a Hindu sculpture on a temple and so qualifies as art imo) and I got thousands of hits mostly from the middle east and eastern Europe.
I have noticed recently that when I go over to feed the kitties the dishes are all knocked over, like are you guys having a party or what? Lovey and Twin,
Handsome Boy.
Robin sent me a little video yesterday. She went out and startled three little juvenile raccoons polishing off the rest of the cat food that hadn’t got eaten. She got a short video of them escaping over the fence into the neighbor’s yard.
Latest count of views for the last post…759. I wish I knew what caused this.
Codex: I think there's some critter knocking things over. Blogger used to have a great feature where one could see the search terms.
ReplyDeleteThe watercolor pencils won't be lightfast but they are a lot of fun. Just use a couple on top of each other, add water and you get interesting effects. Sprinkling salt is another option.