The Mountain Thymes

 Sat down yesterday to blog but the internet wasn't connected and I don't navigate without assistance.  I'm apprehensive about pressing the wrong tabs. Mark was available a few minutes ago and he got me connected in minutes.   We've had rain day after day for about the past two weeks.  Some days as much as one to two inches in twenty-four hours fell.  This was needed but without any sunshine flowers are falling of their stems.  Lettuce and bok choy love this weather.  Growing so quickly,  I pulled up five plants and gave them to Keith.  He lives across the road from me with his elderly mother, Sandy Durrett.  Keith enlarged the back porch and some added a fenced in areas for his little dogs to run around in.   When Clay died about five years ago Keith moved from Savannah to care for his mother.  During this transition time he has relaxed taking up wood working, gardening and recreating patches of whimsical gardens thr...

 This week is my second "draw week' with Kirsty Partridge, a Canadian online artist.  The whole experience is  a learning process. For me to do anything online  is a learning process.  I'm suppose to be able to get back online after watching live and watch the reruns to catch up or fix things I don't like but now I can't find it. She teaches the  basics and there is a chat area where students can ask questions as we are working.  She is so great!  Tomorrow is the last day but I thought I would share my works so far. Baby holding a daisy.  Monday was a study in values and shading using three different graphics pencils.  I didn't finish the flower because I could find the rerun. Tuesday and Wednesday this cupcake.  The frosting reminds me of a snake! I laugh every time I look at this. This was a study in coloered pencil shading and layering.  Yes, that a glass of Pinot Gris in the back.  This is Kirsty on my iPad demonstrat...

 Last week this area went from many weeks of no rain again to six inches of rain in two days,  cutting gullies in our Boulder Creek roads, and rivers flowing down the mountains.                                                my back yard north side of the house flowing all the way to the creek  The first storm dropped five-and-a-half inches in two hours sounding like the Ocoee White Water rafting area in Tennessee.  We need a few days of slow rains to bring us back out of fire danger as many areas also need. I've been trying to blog but the internet has been acting up so I was quite surprise when I gave it a try tonight.  It's nine o'clock and too late to thing.  Hopefully I can get back on in the next couple of days.          Next day.....   Tuesday Looks like the laptop is behaving. This is "Dirty ...