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I pulled from my distant archives today because I needed a theme to cool me off.
"IT" has finally arrived.
"IT" is oppressive.
"IT" has no redeeming value.
"IT" is humidity!!!
So, let's all take a virtual dip in the Monterey Bay with this cool dude.
Happy Animal Wednesday to all of my cool (and hot) friends!
I'm very cranky and grouchy today so I thought I'd channel my miserable mood into something constructive.
This is my first attempt at a paper clay bowl. I used the pinch-pot method because I like how imperfect they turn out. Like Suki, I definately lean towards wabi-sabi things in life.
I love the colors in this because they remind me of Monterey. And that's the reason I chose to paint an abalone shell inside, another thing reminiscent of the place where I spent sixteen glorious years. Well, mostly glorious!
I finished off the dish with gold leaf around the lip and a bit over the inside and outside edges. I'm happy with how it turned out, especially for my first attempt. And it took hours!
Good therapy for one old cranky-pants lady :)
I've listed it on Etsy. We'll see what happens!
The book shown in the Etsy photos is "Monterey Peninsula: A Cypress Shore" with photos by Gary Geiger.
I used to love to sit on a bench by the bay and count pelicans with an elderly couple.
We'd always marvel at the way they'd silently glide by just barely above the water.
The fog is a familiar atmosphere for them as well as the human residents.
Chilly and raw, often slicing you to the bone if it was windy.
Someone once told me that peilicans were pilots who have come back.
I like that. In this life they get to fly free as a bird!
Happy weekend friends!
I love it when early morning fog on a still bay makes everything looked bathed in silver. Happy Skywatch Friday everyone!
For more skyviews, please visit SWF.
One of the reasons we don't need air conditioning here in the Monterey Bay is because the fog always comes in after a warm day, like putting a wet blanet on a fire. The fog visits a little too often for my liking in the summer though.
Check out these skies from around the world to see how the other half lives!
The first of May and the morning sky is inviting. The mist is rising off the water as the surfers get ready to start their days. Aaaaah, life is good!
Happy Skywatch Friday everyone! Don't forget to look at that glorious canvas over your head. To see other sky shots, run on over to this place!
On some mornings I have time to take my dog to El Estero Park in Monterey on my way to my first patient of the day. We walk around both loops of the lake as she enjoys the many sightings of Coots, ducks and Canada Geese, but every once in awhile we get to see a heron or an egret up close.
(See her on the left?)
I put Emma in the car so I could get these shots. They're very camera shy!
This is a very early morning sky which ended up being quite blue after awhile.
Still, grey as it is I love the reflection in the lake.
Happy Skywatch Friday! And don't forget to always look up at the beauty and to click here to see more sky shots from around the world!
Who's that handsome dude behind those Foster Grants?
I painted this the first year we moved here, 1993. I fell in love with the sea otters at first sight. There's a protection act for them because their numbers were declining rapidly. Now the population is up to some pretty healthy numbers, still though there are some that die way too young at the hands of mean or careless people as well as natural diseases.
Today is Earth Day. Let's celebrate this glorious planet we live on by doing our part to help the environment and all the flora and fauna we so very much enjoy.
Go Green!!
Happy Animal Wednesday on Earth Day!
This sky is over Asilomar Beach on the Monterey Bay where I live. I didn't even know the whalewatching boat was in the picture because I was focusing on the sky, otherwise I would have never stuck him right in the middle!
Make sure you visit Skywatch Friday to see other stunning pictures from around the world!
This is a cool dude. HAW. Try to stay cool Lolo.
Lolo, I left Mississippi in large part because I so hated the heat and humidity. 36 years there, and I just hated it more every eight month long summer.
Snow, I honestly can't even imagine being in the Southeast in the summer. I spent a summer in Miami when I was 18. It didn't bother me even as I baked in the sun to get a tan. Now, forty years later I just have to have a little help from the A/C gods ;)
My best to you, Peggy and Brewsky and your pup whose name escapes me. Blue?
I'm ready to go jump in any puddle big enough for this body....UGH!
Spent the day working outside and am darn near melted and dead. (however, I lost no FAT....)
I'm with the cool dude.....
At least if I was in NOLA, there would be something FUN to do in the humidity! ;-D
XXOO~~
Anne
It has been a tad warm ......should I post a picture of my backyard in the dead of winter? 4 feet of snow? Remember???
Hope you are not melting too much and love mr otter
This is really a cool dude. :)) Bummer about IT. We are getting out heat finally but lat least it isnt that humid. Love this guy.
i have to agree with mim's comment. i'm happy with the high temps. when i don't have the ocean, i'll find a lake or a pool. and when i have to work, i thank my car for the ac!
welcome home, new englander! keep cool, we can't be having withering pumpkins adrift...
:^)
love
kj
ps cool cool sunglasses
Wonderful painting on HAW...it was 104 today as I left my office at five p.m...............
oh dear, we have IT too! intense heat and thunderheads over the mountains, so strange the weather. the one thing everyone agrees on is how HOT it is.
CUTE otter!
Love your otterly cool dude.
His designer sunglasses, cool too!
It's 102 right now, with a real-feel temp of 110. I'm not complaining though,,better this than freezing.
so hip! I feel relaxed just looking at this dude :)
...you ALL have me beat in the heat!!♥
Hi dear!!
Oh no did the humidity arrived?!!!!
You stay cool just as this dude!
Oh dear I feel sorry for you!
Stay in the shade dear and jump in the water:)
♥♥♥
>M<
Love your cool other. I like how you painted his neck to look wetter than the rest of him. It's the little things like that which make your paintings so beautiful!
Love it!So cool:)
Someone HAS to report from the "other side".....the "cool" side... fog morning, noon, night....winds gusting to 30 mph.. ah, "Summer" in San Francisco! If he "could" exist in SF, he would be doing his best to swim North, South or East... he IS, however, one "Cool Dude"... and gosh, I think I saw his "nephew", Sealy-D, at the Capitola inlet a few days ago..will tell you more when we chat!
Love and "Chill", Baby!!!!
♥ Robin ♥
"IT" will get better and otters are always a good thing :) Love the Erma Bombeck quote in your last post.
I'm just not minding IT at all!
Thanks I needed that...Ahhhh! The change from utter desert dryness to midwet humidity is doing me in...wilting...like the fragile flower that I am...LOL...:)
I'M THERE!!!