North & Up North

By Jackie, July 9, 2010 1:20 pm

Here it is already well into July and I haven’t made my way through to much of my summer ‘to do’ list. But I’ve been very busy nonetheless. We escaped up north last week before the Independence Day rush. Had a lovely time. Here’ s one of the reason we love it up there, sunset over Lake Bellaire.

Much of my time has been tangled with family activities, photographing vintage artwork, and graphic design jobs. I really want to do some fabric dyeing with this ghastly hot weather going on right now. So I keep doing little bits of prep work when I get spare moments. I did finish this piece, finally. It came out pretty well.

It’s size (22 x 28) made it a bit of a challenge. I know I usually like to work large, but this just seemed a little to big, even for me.

The garden(s) are doing really well this year. I actually have produce growing successfully! The potato plants are taller than the four year old and are flowering. Even found a rogue tomato plant growing outside the raised bed. It doesn’t take much to impress me sometimes.

Here’s the latest journal page I did for the round robin journal book I’m doing with the art group.