Seven trees in the Rain

 

Sitting in the car in the rain across from the high school waiting for J after school-

Blooming Now on the East River Trail

 Asheville peeps!  Get yourself down to the east river trail between now and the end of May!  The show is just beginning.  It already smells delicious.

Nobody Does Rainy Day Better Than Jesse

 

Really

 

 

Big Teaching Weekend

 

Yesterday and today I taught a workshop at BookWorks from 10-5.  I quick-sketched bakery items while in line at City Bakery on my lunch break.

 

More from C Bakery, and then back to work.  Too tired to post last night.

 

When I got home late this afternoon we sat out on the front porch and I did some studies of the view from outside on the porch into the house and out to the back.  Such complex reflections!

 

Midday Farmyard

 

It's bright noon and a banty hen is visiting the sheep. One of the triplets has climbed on top of her mama.

 

Everybody else is settling down in the shade of the little lean-tos for a siesta.

 

The banty looks dead but is actually lying on the ground with her legs stretched out behind her.

Farm and Woods

 

For some reason this post doesn't seem to have posted.  This evening there was a bored mother pig surrounded by a dozen or so madly running-jumping-squealing piglets who went racing in a pack from one end of the pasture to the other.  

 

The lambs have increased to six from last evening's three, with the same three mamas.  A farmworker said one mama had triplets.  Maybe three were inside the barn last evening.

 

On the way home through the woods my friend and I saw the following medicinal plants:

 

Evening in the Sheep Pen

 

Three giant wooly mamas and their three tiny lambs are settling down as the sun sets and the air cools.

 

Actually the babies are still bouncing around.

 

Two of the mamas settle down to chewing their cuds --

 Finally a couple of the babies settle, each near its own mother.

 

One mother flops like a sack of meal on an old chicken ladder while her baby dozes underneath.

 

All babies are now down but this mom stares at me and chews until I finish drawing.  As I walk away she turns her head to look at me.  The sheep make lots of little burping sounds.  I hadn't known that sheep chew cuds.