Free at Last

After so many years stuck at home I was so happy to have a wheelchair van and be able to go wherever I want to but life and luck being what the are for me. You had to laugh that the van came just before the restaurants closed down for the Covid 19 epidemic.

It feels so nice to go down the road.

Lucky for us some of the restaurants are open for take out and this one has the staff in masks and gloves so it feels a bit safer.

It's amazing what we'll risk for food, isn't it?

Lucky for me I live near a park with a lake which you may recognize from some of my paintings and drawings.

Here I go!

As you can see here people are going to the park even though the playground is closed. Most are keeping an appropriate distance and some wearing masks too. 

What's great for me about this park is that there are lots of sidewalks around and through it that are fun to run my chair on just a bit faster than I should. 

Having the breeze in my face makes me smile and I laugh a bit as I swerve between people or around them and get an astonishing array of expressions or comments from people.

 I know, I'm bad but how much fun it is after being stuck at home for 7 years. I hope people forgive my evil but I must confess that I don't much care. I'm having much too fun.

Another thing I've been noticing in the park is that people have been leaving painted rocks around with encouraging messages on them. Each time I come I see one somewhere else.

It took me a minute to notice that it's supposed to be a character is a face mask. Considering the virus pandemic we're going to be seeing masks everywhere.

An old photo inspires a new watercolor painting

 An old photo we took at a lake in the next town about 20 years ago

I still need to add some details but I think it's off to a pretty good start, don't you?

A dull but pleasant day

I spent more time outdoors working on the yard and garden, then indoors for excitement like laundry, dishes and sweeping floors so you can imagine what a treat it was to go down to the lake for live music and the farmers market (one of the vendors even had egg rolls and that's the first time I noticed that-as usual I was looking for the pizza ; )
Now, I'm relaxing at home with a nice cup of hot chocolate with waaay too much whipped cream and thinking life (except for my diet) is good.

July, already. Summer's moving fast...

So many projects plants and flowers have gone by since my last post that I'm not sure which of them to tell you about first except that we've had some interesting visitors in our little city yard this week. The most noteable was a turtle who was apparently headed to the lake a few blocks from here. Traffic of course being what it is we decided to give it a lift over there in my garden pail. This worked out really well because the section of shoreline on the end of our street had just been restored with native plants etc. and our little friend was very excited to find himself/itself/herself? there. How do you tell what a turtle is? I must have cut science class that day...Anyway, I spent today trying to cut the grapevines out of the big rosebush and of course I've got NO idea how they managed to get tangled up in the first place. I hate it when plants get taller than I am, don't you? That definately needed to be cut down to size...as do many things in the garden and elsewhere. Guess that's all for now. Hope y0u're enjoying your day too.