Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Good morning. It’s 9 o’clock here, a little cooler than yesterday with cloudy skies. The sun is trying to peek through, but I shall have to check the weather forecast to see what is in store for us today.

The 💩 has really hit the fan with CLIMATE CHANGE! We’ve been inundated for years with the pictures of the polar bears and disappearing ice. What the general population wasn’t thinking of was the more severe winters going deeper and deeper into the North American continent. As evidenced in the last few days, the power grid in major cities is not equipped to handle the population running heat. And, there is the problem with frozen pipes bursting! Ah yes, it was an error to call it global warming, as people thought it was merely going to get warmer by one or 2°. Climate change is the way to think of it. With it we will have more communicable pathogen‘s that will change how we live on this planet.

I’ve just finished a few paintings I have been working on and will share them here. The first one, is a Zen dragonfly. The idea is leaving the old behind and flying towards the sun.

It was a good meditative type of art piece. The dragonfly took a while to do with all those markings. Enjoyable? Absolutely. It is acrylic on watercolor paper.

The next one is from my art class lesson. There are three layers of watercolor paper, painted, cut out and assembled and then decorated.

The base layer is acrylic ink paint, ‘framed’ with script of a love poem, a watercolor (center) heart, and acrylic painted wings cut out and assembled around the heart. Meh, fiddly but opens the creative mind. 

And, the last one I did while RVing this past week ... All my cottage paintings have sold online, so it’s time to do a few more. 

Just a fun tropical beach cottage scene to warm the soul. 

Today’s main goal is to get aunt Jane move to the skilled nursing at the Cove (where has a villa.) Then, her sweet little dog BoBo, a Chorkie (Chihuahua/Yorkshire terrier) to Diane and Kris in the Villages. We will not be going into visit with the family, but just picking up the little dog and heading straight to the villages. You see, Mark and I have our vaccine appointments tomorrow, Thursday. We won’t take the chance of visiting with them all ... they’ve traveled in the last week! It’ll be a mask up hello and goodbye. Ha ha.