Mainly pictures today. Yoga classes were gone to, a couple of dog walks happened, an uninspired dinner was made, a moderately busy day at SHARE was had, cats were fed. That about sums up the past week.
Oh, I did have a visit with the great grandson who is 8 months old and crawling if that’s what you call it. More like half walking, hands and feet.
Cotton ready to be harvested last Monday which it was a few days later.
The sky about 5 PM on the way to yoga Wednesday (photo through the dirty windshield).
Two more of the watercolor cards, tried a few leaves. I like the ginkgo, the pecan is ok. Took me all week to lazily get the pecan done. I might get a few more done but I’ve worked through the flush of an idea being executed. I’ve done 14 and while a flight of fancy had me doing all 30 by a particular point in time, that was never realistic. I’ve done all that deadline stuff, the reality of creating art on a timeline.
There are things blooming like the purple Philippine violet, the pink trumpet flower just beginning…
This was going to be my first paragraph because this is how it started, what got written down first. But I didn’t want to start with that.
Once again I have deleted about three days worth of emails with only cursory perusing. A lot of it is repetitive, different people reporting and talking about the same goings on. I just…can’t. And obviously I was incorrect in my assessment that the Kxxx thing would blow over just like every other ‘breaking’ thing. Txxxx has seized on it as an excuse to crack down on any and all dissent, even people who correctly quoted Kxxx because it goes contrary to the saint they’re making him out to be. A fucking Day of Remembrance? Monuments? A respectful moment of silence in the House? Presidential Medal of Freedom? Seriously? Is sainthood far behind? Most people had never even heard of the guy. Nevertheless people are getting fired, lawsuits are being filed, shows are being canceled, the Thought Police are in full form. One senator is even promoting a bill that limits the nicknames we can legally call Txxxx and I guarantee none of them will be the Orange Turd. And what the fuck King Charles? What was that disgusting display of fêting of the OT and his disrespectful behavior.
Since it seems the Thought Police are sending their bots to scour every printed word online looking for those to cancel and punish for having ‘unacceptable’ opinions, even unacceptable true statements, I will no longer, for the foreseeable future (unless I forget or I decide it’s being overly dramatic and paranoid which, you know, is a possibility) spell out certain names, hence the Xs. I’m sure you can fill in the missing letters. Thus ends my political commentary for today.
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…and the oxblood lilies are popping up.
I love those lilies. So unlike anything we have here. You cards continue to come out beautifully!
ReplyDeleteI saw that New College in Sarasota, which used to be Florida's famously progressive honors college until DeSantis dismantled its leadership and installed his own toadies, is going to erect a STATUE of Charlie Kirk. Despite the fact that Kirk had nothing to do with New College as far as I know.
I saw that, Steve and it made me want to puke. CK was the epitome of everything New College DID NOT STAND FOR!
DeleteI hope (and expect) that when this administration is gone for good all those CK monuments will be taken away.
DeleteAll I can say about the end stuff is Uf!
ReplyDeleteThe photos and art are beautiful. That’s a great shot through a dirty windshield. I wouldn’t know it’s dirty.
Thanks. I was hoping the shot would turn out since I was barely paying attention while I drove but I was afraid that it would have dissipated by the time I got somewhere I could stop. And it had.
DeleteGosh, your cards are lovely, Ellen. You've done a fabulous job on those. I love seeing your flowers and your lovely skies.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping these crazy times will bring the end of this regime.
Thanks Ellen. Working on one more and maybe another after but then I'll be done for now. Already have two drawings transferred to paper, one for a watercolor painting, one for a colored pencil drawing.
DeleteI keep thinking that surely he'll cross a line that causes some of the republicans to grow a spine nd oppose him but so far not.
I like the Gingkoes a lot but the pecans are good too. You've captured both.
ReplyDeleteYour great grandson is spider-crawling. I love it! Some kids gotta do it their way.
I can't talk about that man right now although I will say that I'm with you- WHY did King Charles give him and Melania the full state welcome? What in hell was he thinking?
I was going to compare it to a spider but thought some people might find that creepy. I like spiders myself. The only thing I can figure was playing to the man's vanity to get what they want.
DeleteCodex: Like them both but the ginko is better. Too bad there is no room for the pecan nut.
ReplyDeleteTold you so. Don't insult him.
I like the ginkgo better. I thought about adding a pecan but then it would fall outside my parameters for these cards.
DeleteNope, not gonna censor myself because he's a thin skinned grievance baby. That's exactly what he wants.
The K guy is just as polarizing as the OT
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, totally into forcing his far right hateful restrictive agenda on all of us. Nothing quite like christian 'love'. What I don't get is why these so called christians are so enamored of the old testament vengeful god.
DeleteIt really is so depressing right now, but at least there are still babies & lovely art.
ReplyDeleteSeems like the world is going through a sea change. What's happening here is infecting Canada, Germany, and France.
DeleteI'm late to the cotton fields! I may go out tomorrow and see if I can find some. I wanted to photograph cotton last year, and never got it done. I'm always behind its schedule. I love both of the leaf cards: especially the pecan. The photo of the cotton reminded me of an old joke my dad told me when I was a kid: What did Eli Whitney always tell his house guests? "Keep your cotton-pickin' hands off my gin."
ReplyDeleteMy farmer is always one of the last to harvest so you may have missed it this year.
DeleteMaybe it’s because I’m off to my own yoga class this morning, but that cute ggson looks like he’s part way to “down dog”.
ReplyDeleteBetcha Txxx used the wrong fork.
I hadn't thought of that but you're right. Just straighten those legs and duck your head buddy.
DeleteThe gunk is exceptionally evocative.
ReplyDeleteThe ginko not the gunk!
ReplyDeleteHa! I wondered what you meant.
DeleteFxxx Txxxx with his tiny peen and Fxxx Cxxxxxx Kxxx and his gingivitis gums and his weird ass tractor pull memorial
ReplyDeleteMy comment counts are in the thousands now. I need to learn how to backup the blog, the instructions on the internet don't match what I see on the screen. I would hate to lose it entirely. Did not know babies crawl like that.
ReplyDeleteMine too. That stat had become meaningless.
DeleteThe Great-Grandson is definitely on his way to getting his Legs under him, then he'll be Hell on Wheels. *LOL* And yes about Txxxx and Kxxx, sick to death of it all already. How he Died is as tragic as any Murder, and we've had slews of them, but it doesn't excuse how he Lived. They had the Memorial here locally, since, he was a local guy, even tho' before his Murder I'd never heard of him and this Regime sure is trying to make him a Saint and handy Martyr as a distraction and to silence Free Speech as well. Well, the Prez showed up, the Attendees literally Trashed around the Stadium and surrounding Neighborhoods, not that I was surprised, it was literally a Human Side Show for Miles... we live near enuf to the Stadium to see it from our Property and it was quite the production. Anyway, took Bulldozers to clear the Trash left in it's wake. We've Hosted Super Bowls and enormous Concerts for major Celebs like Taylor Swift and the Rolling Stones and NONE of their Attendees ever made such a mess in the Wake of their Events, it was... well, in a Word... predictable... given the Demographic it attracted.
ReplyDeletebaby boy looks like radiant baby! Blog world getting hit so hard...why? Most of us are old ladies - who gives a shite?
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