irrepressible sunshine

in the spring garden
irrepressible sunshine —
daffodils

cherry blossoms

enlightenment —
from behind the wall
cherry blossoms

fluttering

sunday afternoon —
mobiles and cherry blossoms
fluttering in the breeze

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Seattle Art Museum had a cool promotion today: a library card got you free admission.

magnolia blossoms

how fragrant
the snow flakes!
magnolia blossoms

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Today was a Worldwide Sketch Crawl. The Seattle chapter met at the Convention Center, meaning as the weather went from sun to rain to sun to rain, we could move from Freeway Park to indoors and vice versa.

listen. peace

Living
in the landscape

I
Listen.

Plenty of
peace.

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Apropos for playing with a harbor scene, the OED word of the day for the erasure poem was 'cruise.'

sun in the woods

Sun Talking to Moon
a convivial society

close to the water

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Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'lumber.'

rainbow blossoms

rainbow arches
behind cherry blossoms —
faux spring

Springs of Riches

those Springs of Riches which
Surprise the Heart...
nature, imagination and a keen sense of enjoyment.

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After yesterday's rather abysmal word of the day, microsatellites, the OED was back on track today, giving us 'animal spirits' for the erasure (aka 'found') poem.

bedeviled by
the pond's thin sheet of ice
the mallard pair

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While I was sketching the moon bridge at Kubota Garden, some letterboxers came along to investigate a nearby stone bench. They were fun, and I had them all stamp my paper. You can see part of the pink Energizer bunny at right, and below it a lotus stamp.

Their parting comment was, "See what you have to look forward to when you get old?" :)

witnessing sunday

everyone is out
witnessing sunday
live up to its name

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The Seattle chapter of UrbanSketchers convened at the "center of the universe" (aka Fremont) this morning, having gladly changed an indoor event to an outdoor one. Viva El Niño!

I found a great bench (made of plastic recycled content, of course) from which to observe the Sunday market & paint.