Monday August 26th 2019 Resting Face I parked in my usual spot alongside the east facing wall of the grocery store. It has taken me a few visits to figure out just where to park so that my car lines up with the area on the mural I am working on and the shade. I’ve been tracking the shade for about a week and know now that I can actually start later as the shade drops across the wall midmorning.  Painting outside in summer is almost as difficult as painting around the rain. The wall heats up and the paint...

Monday, May 27,2019 Some days I just plain run out of lemons. It’s not that I don’t want to make lemonade, but sometimes, it’s just not about making it sweet. Now, it doesn’t take much to make me smile - I have six hummingbirds visit now and the mornings are fresh and scented from rain - but there are swaths of time that I have to sort through heavier things. I start noticing that I am grumpy, that I just don’t have answers and am not really engaged in what makes up my story. It’s almost like my story isn’t...