Tree #148–153

 Yet another view of one of our Silver Maples

with branches sprouting around the lower

part of the trunk and a nameless

foliage at its base. 8-15-12

 Our tired-looking, drought-weary
Japanese Maple with lush, uninvited,
unauthorized, miscellaneous foliage. 8-17-12

 Sorting files of useless papers for
what seemed like all day. 8-18-12

Sorting my stash of weaving yarns for

too many hours. 8-20-12

Enough sorting! Took off to do some biking and

did this from memory of the bridge across

Turkey Creek as it opens into Wall Park Lake.8-22-12

Went biking again and did this from memory

at the tired-end of the day,

by memory, of Euclid St. 8-23-12

Last page of the sketch book, just

some playing with layering primary colors

and adding water using watercolor

pencils. Colorful fun! 8-24-12

Trees #145–147

"Unauthorized foliage" (weeds?) at

the base of one of our backyard trees. 8-8-12

Another view of our crabapple

in the backyard. 8-10-12

The weather has been a little cooler, and I took

a long walk to Lakeside Park again, found an

empty bench, and sketched this

view of Turkey Creek. 8-13-12

Trees #140–144

 I'm bored drawing the trees I can see from my window

and it's sooo hot to be outside. What a wimp I am.

This is inspired by a black & white photo in a book. 7-31-12

These are limp ivy vines clinging to a tree trunk

outside my upstairs window. We're having a

drought as well as 100-plus temps. My spirits

are as limp as the vines. I'm now thinking

this appears much too green... 8-1-12

A branch extending past the trunk of our tree

just outside my upstairs window. 8-5-12

Just playing around with watersoluble

colored pencils and ink. 8-6-12

More watersoluble colored pencils. 8-7-12

Trees #135–139

Scribbling my backyard Silver Maple trees

and bushes in the early evening. 7-28-12

My backyard trees as seen from my

upstairs window at dusk. 7-24-12

Certainly not a tree seen around here yet! I made it up.

Maybe it's longing for cooler autumn temps.

I'm tired of 100-plus weather. 7-25-12

A little bush. 7-26-12

Another tree trunk as seen from my upstairs window. 7-30-12

Tree #134

No one should try to identify the species—

I made it up, fast and furious. Felt good. 7-18-12

Trees #129–133

 A tree. 7-9-12

 Scribbled a tree in our neighbor's backyard at dusk. 7-12-12

 A mini tree? 7-14-12

I walked around Wall Park Lake at dusk and stopped at a bench

to sketch this very large tree. (Top is not really shown.) It was dusk, 

but I thought I'd just do a very quick one. But it got dark much

faster than I realized, or was I was there much longer than I realized?

Probably the latter. When I'm sketching, time gets away from me.

Finally, I had to quit, because I could barely see my page. 7-15-12

A few branches from our backyard pear tree. Somehow, the squirrels

haven't eaten them all yet. We better hurry to get them "harvested!" 7-17-12

Trees #127–128

 View of the trees from the glider on our patio. 7-6-12

View at dusk of the backyard from inside our sunroom.

In the center is that poor dead pine tree. 7-7-12

Tree #125–126

This is a portion of the Redbud tree in the front yard

with foliage in the flower bed beneath. As can be seen

by the dates, I haven't done my sketch every single day.

But I'm consistently inconsistent. 6-28-12

This is my "contemplation" seat that I placed, just so, at the base

of one of the Silver Maples in the backyard. I've always

told myself, when I'm in a hurry and rushing to get somewhere, 

I would sit there sometime when I had time. Now the

seat is very dirty, and I have never taken the time to go out

there with a rag. So, I have never sat in my "comtemplation"

seat... 7-2-12

Trees #119–124

Low foliage at the base of the trees. 6-13-12

Those same sapplings I sketched before at the base of

our Silver Maples in our backyard. 6-15-12

Just playing again with wet-into-wet watercolors

followed by colored pencil. 6-16-12

The view from our sunroom window of the

neighbor's backyard. 6-19-12

This is a tree across the street in a neighbor's side yard. 6-21-12

The middle portion of tree trunks in our backyard 

I can see from my upstairs window. 6-26-12

Tree #114–118

 A cluster of leaves on a low "tree" at the base

of one of our Silver Maples. 6-2-12

Layered tissue paper, matte

medium, and matte medium tinted with

water color. It was fun to play! 6-4-12

 Just a quickie, still playing... 6-5-12

These are trees I could see across the street from the

VAAM gallery window. It was almost dusk, no customers,

almost closing time. 6-7-12

After a great day looking at fine arts and fine crafts at Smoky Hill River Festival in Salina, I was so hot and tired, I sat down to rest. No sketchbook with me again, but I found a piece of goofy paper and a ballpoint pen, and did this of the tree across from where I was sitting. 6-10-12

Tree #109–113

I took a walk to Lakeside Park and after

walking completely around the lake, I found

a bench by the water and sketched the tree before me

that was hanging over the water. 5-24-12

Just a quickie of the view to the northwest

of our backyard. 5-28-12

I walked around Lakeside Park lake almost at dusk, and

again sat on a park bench, but didn't take my sketchbook.

When I got home, I did this from memory. There are a few

ripples in the water I could put in....5-29-12

I was "in" all day, working at the VAAM gallery,

no sketcch book again, so did this from memory

later in the evening... 5-30-12

Another tree at Lakeside Park. What a resource

Lakeside Park is! I'm glad I live so close! 5-31-12

Trees #105–108

 A tree. 5-18-12

 A dead tree in our backyard. 5-21-12

 Another tree in our backyard. Good thing

we have a lot of them. 5-22-12

 This was done at bedtime, by memory, of a flower bed

that I had weeded late in the afternoon. 5-23-12