look at the bedroom slippers & mules i captured! they were floating in the pacific just in front of our mendo beach house.
uh mazing right?
a little more sketchbookery from the car, a bench, standing on the bluffs, looking out the living room window, and from my table at a cafe. the other night i took this iphone pic of a tree i can see from my sundown porch perch. good idea for sketchbook fodder dontcha think?
random thoughts:
the painter is coming tomorrow to start work on the exterior trim painting project.
i’ve begun the guatemalan packing project.
i wonder if i’ll be able to see the milkyway from antigua.
the blood moon was lovely last night, although it appeared redder and more dramatic last october i thought. thrilling all the same! did you catch it from your neck of the woods?
That orange would be a FANTASTIC big painting. Wonderful composition, wonderful color. Wonderful wonderful
You are going to love Guatemala!! When I was a Senior in college- 1981 I took part in a tropical Ecology class through my college. We spent a week at Tekal – The Mayan Ruins- and a week in the rainforest. It was a life changing experience and I cant wait to revisit it through your eyes!! Bon Voyage!!
The moon was pretty amazing from here and the eclipse rocked. Nothing like turnin’ one’s face up to the sky to find out what the stars are up too, a few of my neighbors wandered out of their homes as well, which I thought was sort of cool, all out for the same reason, that does not happen all that often in my neck of the woods where everyone tends to keep to themselves for the most part. For a few minutes we enjoyed a moment together without the need or desire to utter a single word. “moonstruck’ as it were. Mary Ann, your sketches are wonderful, you capture what we wouldn’t get to see otherwise, I’d have no idea that there were ‘mules’ floating in the pacific. It should be noted on every map for goodness sake. I’m off to contact Rand McNally.
I finally had to look Antigua up and now see there is one IN Guatemala. I couldn’t quite imagine you at the island one. May you have an adventurous trip, and not earthquake adventures. Looks rather rain-foresty to me, rather like our 98% humidity today.
i’ll be in guatemala’s highlands, not the tropical lowlands. weather here is characterized as “eternal spring” with cool to cold nights and warm days. i’ll give you the full report once i’m there. if it’s anything like mexico’s highlands it will be fabulous weather.
I am determinedly not packing until October. We reveled in the milky way in the high Rocky Mountains all of last week. It is a delicious, mysterious thing. Fall in the mountains at peak leaf season is mind-boggling and I am recommending you add it to you list of places to see. I suspect you will want a B & B but I will say that the YMCA of the rockies either in Estes Park or Winter Park (my fave) have very very affordable rooms, cabins and lodges depending on how many you are…but peak will pass soon so probably next year or the next…come see the Eastern part of the West – the High Eastern part…love your sketches and am inspired every day to make books and paint/sketch/learn…
Oh how I struggled with the orange slice exercises up on the Mendocino coast and you have made a perfect one!