When I was out taking photos of the Angel Tulip flowers, I remembered Terry saying we had bananas growing.  I walked over and there were two...

I purchased a couple of handmade sketchbooks from a dear friend of mine and started one of the two last night.   The sketchbooks I purcha...

One of my close friends sent me a photo a couple mornings ago of her pen with a Zebra G nib replacing the standard nib.  She used a Noodler...

Yesterday, Terry ran to Publix to pick up a few items we were out of.  Upon return, he surprised me with a bouquet of flowers with Autumn co...

Here it is towards the end of September and we are still dealing with 90 degree weather.  One nice change has been the nights......actually ...

As we wait for the release of the newest Pokemon game this year, I looked up to see if there was a similar game I could play. Came across ...

It's that time a year when we're seeing the hummingbirds come around the feeders again.  We might see one now and then through the s...

This afternoon my husband replaced the wrought iron pole we had out front with this wood pole.  The metal pole didn't sit high enough to...

While playing, I find I like using the glass dip pen over all the steel nibs.  It's smoother and carries ink longer.  I don't have t...

After seeing how the ink behaved on Fabriano Artistico (old stock), I wanted to try it out in the Zeta sketchbook.  Definitely behaves diffe...

Today my order of four Diamine Inks came in and wanted to work this chart showing the colors and how they wash out with damp/wet brush. Wh...

I decided to pull out a few of my Kuretake Zig Real Brush pens to play around with and work some quick sketching.  This is something I need ...

Squirrels are so much fun to watch......especially trying to get at bird feeders.  I've seen them try one thing after another to get to ...

Normally we see a single, couple, or family of three Sandhill Cranes here in the neighborhood.  This year has been a treat with seeing this ...

Thought I would go through checking on some of my pens to see how they are doing.  If fountain pens, I'm checking to make sure they stil...

With the long duration of this hurricane and sitting on pins and needles for days wondering if it was going to come ashore, I was relieved w...

Last night Hurricane Dorian crawled up the coast east of where we live so we felt some of the effects starting around midnight.  It wasn...

This is from a photo of a yellow jacket crawling on the window back in 2011.  My third sketch for the challenge set by Clare using the dot p...

Worked this quick journal sketch of where things seem to be right now as of 1:26 p.m. Tuesday, September 03, 2019, plus a few facts as I und...

Each day I've been trying to concentrate on sketching as we sit and follow the hurricane updates.  It's so heart wrenching thinking ...