Birthday drawing and other small things

Yesterday was a lovely day for sitting outside and drawing, cool, cloudy. And the daylilies are coming into bloom. They're a symbol of human and animal life -- each blossom lasts only a day, but there's a succession of them, and the parent plant goes on flourishing indefinitely.

So it seemed right to celebrate Handsome Partner's birthday with a drawing of a daylily he used to know, in my favorite drawing tool, the fine point black Pilot pen.

And while I was out there, to see this visitor on the marigolds

And a bee scoping out the daylily, huge area for him to work

While the self seeded Thai basil seedlings get to work

There's a lot of life in this little space

And while I'm still pursuing the eye doctor to get the Rx called in, hasn't happened yet, a week later,  stress levels high over this, I'm reading this

The cover image, Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, is appropriate, since it's described early in the narrative though not by name, but unmistakably.  One of her deliberately naive passages.

I saw this painting many years ago at a joint Picasso/Braque exhibit at the old MOMA, and was stunned by its size and power. The color alone is enough to knock you down. 

In fact I had to go sit down to recover, and wasn't able to take in much of the rest of the huge, significant,  show.  

This is why I like to go to art exhibits alone, so I can leave when I can't take in any more, quite often after seeing only a couple of works, even if it was a long trip to get there. 

I can't wait for the new Princeton art museum building to be finished and opened, short trip to see small and wonderful exhibits, on a campus filled with great outdoor sculptures.

Still reading the Winterson art essays, and with a Maisie Dobbs audiobook to accompany Sock Ministry knitting.

Hoping for Rx success today..

Happy day everyone, press on, push voter registration and help the good guys, applaud the G7's clamping down on Russia's economy to help starve  terrorist Putin's armament funding.