The Foundling
part 3

"What will we feed her?"

Horse mint tea with honey, wild oat porridge, grass seed cookies, yucca blossom fritters, wild lettuce, mesquite bean scones, and rattlesnake steak.

Pa is out this morning hunting rattlesnake and this afternoon harvesting honey.

                             The Foundling

In a secret valley ringed by grassy hills the little people found a baby. She was bundled up in a colorful patchwork quilt. They looked all around, even climbing one of the small thorny trees for a better view. There was no sign of another large human: no buildings, no smoke, no tracks in the grass.

"We will have to take care of her until her people return."

to be continued

Back to the Drawing Board

This past week I combined several of my creative streams in these drawings. First I was playing around with drawing one of my cloth dolls.



This is Lily. She has a handspun angora rabbit yarn wig.



















I drew Lily and added some of my doodled flowers.

















I enjoyed this drawing so much that I wanted to do a watercolor version and this is the result.






I usually strive for realism when I draw people. And I am not always pleased with the results! But since I was drawing a simple, stylized doll the resulting simplification, a sort of symbolic child resulted. It is fun! It reminds me of some of the paper dolls I drew as a child.

What is more fun than eating?

Aragorn : Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.
Pippin : What about breakfast?
Aragorn : You've already had it.
Pippin : We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
Merry : I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin : What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry : I wouldn't count on it.

This morning I sat on the porch with my coffee and breakfast. It was a beautiful morning. Not really cool but pleasant. I took my camera, journal, and art supplies to record the moment. The moment that lasted for some time longer than I expected because it was so much fun. I didn’t have second breakfast but did keep warming up the coffee and topping my cup until
at least eleven!