Yesterday I volunteered at my son's school to help with the spring photos. Wow. It was a long day; 8:30 till 3:45. I was amazed at the differences between the kids in 6th grade and those in 8th, behavior, height, etc. All of them look so grown up to me. I don't remember - uh - 'needing a bra' until like, freshman year in high school and even then it was more like a hope-for-the-future double-A than something I actually needed. Most of the girls including the 6th graders are well in advance of that I can tell you. Jeez. This is definitely a sign that I'm getting old. At least my child wasn't embarrassed to see me there - he still likes it. I think it's partly because he's a boy and partly because I'm such a spazz the kids can kind of relate to me. Of course my 'nice mom' voice disappeared a few hours in and one of the other volunteers told me I missed my calling - I should have been a prison warden. hee hee hee....So today I just ran errands and am venturing into potting my first 'flowering' plants ever. I am not a plant person - in the past they've all died on me, but I've managed to keep a rather large group of succulents and a cactus bowl alive for a couple of years now (yes, I know - they only need water once a month and can live in almost any light), but hey - they're alive and they look pretty. Now that spring is really getting underway, I'm inspired to try a bigger project and got some yellow lilies and red flowers of some kind (no idea what they are) that require the same conditions as the lilies. Tomorrow is the big planting day - I'm so excited!
Happy Spring!
3 comments:
nice...is that a new painting? haven't seen it before. or did you have help? is it really yours? its so different than the rest of your work. oh, wait...now i'm getting caught up in the swirl of the "my kid could paint that" documentary! ha. very soothing piece though, seriously.
It's an old one I did that I sort of copied from "Japanese Art: A Cultural Appreciation". I loved the painting but wanted it slightly different, so I redid it my way. And of course, I cropped it a bit for the blog, so there's a bit more to it. Thank you for the compliment!
I bought my last plant for twenty quid from a short portly chap named "Slinky."
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