a good start

i just realized that it is 5:37am
it's light out
it's cool out
i'm UP
and awake!
plus i have to tell you all, i did start a new drawing yesterday- i had roughed it in a bit over the weekend and on tuesday i started to do the pencil work and the very beginning inking...
well yesterday i started to do the ink drawing in earnest
it has me a bit excited so i did have trouble sleeping last night....i was going over and over in my head how it needed to come about
for those of you who look for the faces in these drawings, i can tell you i've seen two pop up already......does that mean that the 'nature' spirits missed me?
cause one of them looks an awful lot like the salamander that we found when planting the elderberry.

so today i am going to start early, get the ducks out early so they can enjoy the cool....
do dishes later as that is when my energy is there for that.......
i do have to move some compost to the garden beds, but i am going to save as much energy for drawing as i can
and if the weather holds maybe i can also get the front door trim painted!
oye everything takes forever around here doesn't it?

why is that?
this weekend we also need to cut back the rhodo...... and some limbs on the maples
i am considering attacking the yews too...maybe into small christmas tree shapes...or a penguin maybe.......( i like penguins- bernie wouldn't approve though)
and since he's fixing the deck.......christmas tree shapes it is........although penquins would have been really cool....

i am still washing, drying and freezing my handknits.... every day i do a few more
the freezers are stuffed.

now i am about to also make the jump into egg tempera, i have decided..... i need a subject, one i love that will justify the hours of work that will go into it.....
i am thinking, maybe not ducks for this one.
but who knows
i think i'll order a couple of different sized small panels ....the sizes start at 4X5
i wonder if this would be a good time to do a still life set up? maybe some of that depression glass i got? i have been wanting to paint some clear colored glass......with water and maybe goldfish
ok we'll see

i am still knitting on liliiflora, almost done with the border.... this one is going a lot slower then the last one.... at first i didn't think i liked the archangel in this, now i decided i do like it for it's halloween colors
i also realized that all the lace i'm knitting..mostly no one will notice anything but the color........ so it's ok
the lace knitting is a bonus extra i am thinking.....
if you know what i mean

ok i got my coffee, i hope you all have yours...... i would have liked to sit on the deck but i am still in my sleep shirt
however i am going to start my day anyway.......
take good care everyone