Procrastination is just another word for creativity. Lily.

Illustration Friday: GLAMOUR

Glamour:

Noun
Glamor, glamour (alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal))

Verb

Bewitch, glamour, enchant

(cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something)

artwork by Lily

Here is Lucy!

Found this while cleaning my art closet… Thought it fitting. Lily.

CATS: Tiny Cat

Books and Observations:

This month, yes the one that is dwindling really fast, started with every indication of progress and frantic industry that felt good …then it flopped, somewhat. There is so many things to do, and there is even time to do them. And yet…
It is a slow time in my life, for the first time in years, and I am relishing it (with some mixture of surprise and amusement) and wallowing in it, and don’t want to go and snap at attention and go do. So, here it is – I am being a lazy bum. And as usual, if there is something looming on the horizon, something from “to do” list, I am suddenly finding creative urge. And reading.

I have completely screw up my schedule by reading into the night, knowing well that I will be groggy come morning, with a head that feels as if it is stuffed with cotton balls, but here I am. So, I am re-reading all of OUTLANDER series by Diana Gabaldon, and loving every word of it, again. And as soon as library will have a copy available of the latest one, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (read – as soon as I will be able to wrangle that copy from the clutches of other patrons), I am starting on it.

I am having a load of apprehension about one of my accounting classes, and just going to hope it will not be as bad as I am imagining it. And I am starting my Tax volunteer duty on Saturday.

And here is something that I have learned recently -- there is ALWAYS room for error. A wise and caring friend corrected me: "there IS always error"! Just count on it. I am finding out that if you do calculate for that error, you don’t get to be horribly surprised or horribly upset. You still be upset and surprised, but not horribly, perhaps.
Cover your assets! Do what needs to be done in a timely manner, record and make copies of everything, and never-ever let people who have reached their level of incompetence to tell you they have no record of or this is the first time they hear about “it”. Fax them two copies of everything and let them eat it! That’s it, time to go and see if there will be a cat by the end of this day… Lily.

CATS: The Fool

CATS: The High Priestess

Cats: Here's looking at you kid.

Illustration Friday: CATS

I am not going to be able to make up my mind and have just one drawing of one cat,
one cat is never enough!!!
I suppose it will just have to be “cat a day”.
I am starting with this one – CURIOUS. Lets the Purrrrade begin. Lily.

E is for Eryngium giganteum.

This one is for Lucy.

Antisocial gardener (she booby-trapped her flowers lest they be stolen!) who seldom shared plants with others, Miss Willmott had a peculiar habit: she carried seeds of the silvery-blue Eryngium giganteum Bieberstein and scattered them in other people's gardens. The spiny plant was said to match her personality. Like a specter, the silvery-blue plant stands out against dark green. After all these years, the plant is still called Miss Willmott's ghost.

Better late than never... Here is my 2006 Hopes & Dreams list, not in any particular order of importance:

1) Be more compassionate and learn to let go.

2) Attend to my garden. At the very least, I must mulch and weed...

3) Practice my yoga and make use of my treadmill, one or the other, on a daily basis.

4) Read. Read. Read. And perhaps re-read.

5) Learn to do watercolors.

~~~ Lucy ~~~

Merry Christmas! Again.

Holidays have come and gone… Lights are turned off in the the neighborhood, and it is dark and cold… I am NOT taking my little tree down just yet! Orthodox Church is celebrating Christmas on the 7th of January. So, tomorrow is a Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas! Lily.

Illustration Friday: FLAVOR

Let’s hear it for the confused!
Ever since this guy from the box started blooming few days ago, I could not stop thinking about candy canes and peppermint. So, here he is. Not as gorgeous as the model, but still bursting with flavor. Holiday kind of flavor… Lily.