Monday, July 15, 2013

Lilies and More

My flowers finally popped out, was pretty excited when I got to see them. Oddly enough it was only one color that made it to full maturity. I keep wondering why that in the mixed batch only the yellows came out and the rest either stopped growing half way or didn't come up at all.

They seem so perfect!
Then there were my "I will be amazed if I get flowers out of these".

Got some bachelor buttons...

and a well chewed on scarlet flax. There was another flower that had survived but it didn't last long enough for me to get a picture. We got a bunch of rain and now are being hit with a heat wave, fun fun.

Picked the first tomato from the garden today, it is just a cherry tomato but seems decent sized for one.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Swapping Subjects

Got a little bit colored and now I am putting this aside for something else. I will come back to it (I hope) but something caught my attention.

The Color Pencil Magazine had a drawing competition every month. I have been watching it for awhile now, waiting to see if anything 'calls out' to me and this months finally has.
-->Here<-- is the subject, I don't care about winning; I just know that if I draw that bird, when I am done, it will feel really good. There is a good chance I won't even enter it in.
I won't be posting progress of it or anything, sounds silly but this has that "Do it privately" feel to it.