Saturday storm-white caps on the river

Heres the same view NOT an hour later....

and nary a storm cloud in the sky ...isnt weather wild...and all the time the local tv weather guys had all kinds of wild storms passing right over us

hmmm if i could have remembered to hold down the button on the camera this video would have all been in one...this is the same wild storm blowing down the Savannah River that blew thru Atlanta earlier today tearing up Centennial Park, Westin Peachtree and the Equitable Building as well as tearing up a block in Cabbage Town a part of town just east of downtown Atlanta

The local tv channels have been covering this storm for THREE hours now...must have been a REALLY wild one...they are telling everyone to stay home...trees down all over the CSRA, power outages...glad we have the lights on...now where is my greys anatomy cd?!

BTYW did you know that our local Channel 12 WRDW has a service that will let you put your phone number in and they will automatically call you when there is a tornado watch in your area...we would have been called last nite ....we were in the zone...cool huh?

a sketch a day does not keep

the doctor away...spent the last 24 hours having an acute allergy attack...now totally doped up on allergy meds...should be sleeping but decided if i did that i would stay up all nite and i want to go to work tomorrow...miss my kidlets at school...

Thinking i was feeling better I decided to take pics of the tulip colored pencil sketch i have been working on since 11 instead of sleep
ing....took it with three different camera settings...the first one is the closeup setting...this one is the party setting...no flash

This one was done on the snow setting...no flash

which one looks the most nearly like the drawing??? I think the last...NOPE now that I look at in preview its the second one ...snow makes the white bristol board look pinkish for some reason...

its done with prismacolor pencil on strathmore white bristol board...boy that paper really likes cp!!

I THINK i am going to color the background...and I KNOW i am going to add some more darks to the leaves on the left so the darks are sprinkled across all the leaves...originally this was supposed to be jsut an upclose sketch of the tulips themselves..they are so cool...are they parrot tulips Lin?? From Krogers...took them out of their icky cellophane and plopped them in one of my ceramic pots that needed a plant...when they are done ...out to the yard next to the daffodils...which incidently are in full bloom around here ..the temp in 71...3 degrees above normal for this part of the world...just to the right of Augusta GA in SC

A few new sketches...more daily drawings

I am finding these things quite addictive..the more I draw the more I want to draw...

This is a country church yard that I drive by on my way upcountry from Augusta on hwy 28...always have liked the way the two dead firs look...and the old wonky building...prismacolor pencil and ink. I actually pulled over on the side of the road to draw this one.. Would you believe there were fishermen out on the river today...this guy was ALL bundled up...it was 45 outside and the wind was literally howling down the river blowing this guy OPPOSITE the current down the river...not UP the river....and his boat was moving in slow lazy circles past our house...my husband said the perch are running...and they are catching world record sized perch down by the bridge at the end of the neighborhood with a dollfly and the smallest minnow you can find...BUT HES NOT out there fishing:> TOO cold for my dear dh...