Thursday, May 28, 2015


Dancing Hares, after rain

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Autumn Leaves


Old Man's Cave

Indian Run Falls

Rainy Day, View from Tim Horton's

Monday, May 25, 2015

Sunday, May 24, 2015


Cabbage Patch Doll, 2014

Saturday, May 23, 2015


Preparing for Winter
Dancing Hares, from northwest.  Bales of straw, ready for sledding.

Friday, May 22, 2015


Chihuly glass
Franklin Park Conservatory. White-hot glass blowing oven in background. Rain was drumming on the tin roof of the glass blowing shed.

Thursday, May 21, 2015


First Watch, Hilliard

Wednesday, May 20, 2015


A Cookie Cutters welcome!

Tuesday, May 19, 2015


Comfort food on winter journey.
Trip to hospital, then Ikea, with a break at Cracker Barrel . (Trimmed to protect privacy.)

Monday, May 18, 2015


Biting December wind, Michigan City beach.

Sunday, May 17, 2015


Dancing Hares celebrate Thanksgiving.
Negative space.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

On the Menu at Alegria's


Musicians arrive.

Bench, outside.
Evidently added the title to the first sketch later, forgot spelling.

Friday, May 15, 2015


Memories, Logan & Louisville

Thursday, May 14, 2015


Cincinnati road trip, and after

Wednesday, May 13, 2015


Christmas view, from La Chatelaine

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Rogation Days

From Steve Roud's The English Year, p. 176-177:
Rogationtide is the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday immediately preceding Ascension Day, the fortieth day after after Easter Sunday....It was traditionally the time for the faithful to go in processional around the parish, led by the clergy, ... giving thanks to God, and blessing the fields, crops, and animals....
.... the processional to bless the fields came to include the notion of checking the parish boundaries, and what is now called 'beating the bounds' was born....
....In the absence of effective record-keeping, the extent to which local officials were forced to rely on the memories of old people for evidence in local matters and legal disputes cannot be overstated, and this was especially true in the area of custom and tradition. 
This year, Ascension Day in the Western Church falls on Thursday, May 14. Rogation Days are May 11-13.

Chipotle, Perimeter

Monday, May 11, 2015


Dancing Hares, across the snow
Playing with Pentel pocket brush pen,

Sunday, May 10, 2015


Purple velvet chair, Kenneth's Hair Salon

Saturday, May 9, 2015


Bas-relief, outside library

Friday, May 8, 2015

Worldwide Sketchcrawl Day, Oct. 2014


Baja Sol, formerly Don Pablo's, boarded up.

Thursday, May 7, 2015


Ballantrae Park in Autumn
(Here I was wishing to try a Stillman & Birn sketchbook. Mattias Adolfsson Sketchbook Skool assignment: meta drawing.)

Wednesday, May 6, 2015


Fairy Garden

Tuesday, May 5, 2015


Highbanks Nature Center

Monday, May 4, 2015

First Day of School


Waiting for the Bus

Church Basement
In memory of Thelma Howdyshell, May 4, 1907 - March 22, 1992. (Mattias Adolfsson Sketchbook Skool assignment: first day of school.)

Note, added later: The public school I attended had an overflow first grade class, housed in the basement of a nearby church.
Further note: Grandpa drove me to school the first day.

Sunday, May 3, 2015


Anna's Greek Cuisine, Mural

Saturday, May 2, 2015


Asian Star

Friday, May 1, 2015


Farm Market in the Fall
Leaves courtesy of Koosje Koene's Fall Feast tutorial.