In one of the free daily newspapers in Geneva last week, there was an item about a tree that had a face. I took this photo a while back and had forgotten about it but after seeing the photo in the paper I figured if it is good enough for the people of Geneva, it's good enough for my blog! Can you see it? I was out walking with Alex that day - I seem to remember him disowning me at that point...He had to be dragged around the shops this week to buy outdoor gear as the school have decided that the whole of his year will take off to a remote village for a week to have classes there. The weather is very changeable and he needs things like new trainers anyway so there was no getting out of it. I said last week that normal blog service would be resumed after the boys went back to school but I had forgotten about those emergencies that somehow crop up every few days. (Mum, I've GOT to have that ringbinder by tomorrow or I'll be expelled. That sort of thing.) I like blogging for that reason. I have a terrible memory and if anyone asks what do I do, or what did I do yesterday, I can never remember so I say 'oh, nothing really'. But when I look back at the blog, I can see how things do seem to crop up on a regular basis - even if I don't write about them, the posts around that time remind me. Last week, I tried to spend it drawing, to see if I could pin down exactly how long a portrait might take me but with one thing and another it just didn't work out that way. Life really is what happens when you're busy making other plans!
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Yes Felicity - how do teachers get away with the threat of murder for missing stationery or homework - if you or I threatened such a thing we'd be carted off to the funny farm or at least the police station :o) Hope he enjoys his week away - sounds great fun!
I see a face up at the top left, cropped where the eyebrows would be. Is that the one you see too?
I was interested in your comment about preferring to keep your drawings in the pad rather than framing them. I pondered that awhile, and it strikes me that you really think of your drawings as extensions of yourself rather than as separate objects out there. I find all these different approaches to art quite fascinating. Vive l'internet and blogs indeed!
OH YES!! Life happens!! LOVE the tree, Felicity! I remember when I was doing my thesis finding so many Live Oak Trees that resembled deer faces with branches as antlers -- sort of reminded me what gave Walt Disney such an imagination! I love that you SAW the tree and snapped a photo ... of it!
And yes, if I don't write down what I've done, I'm completly in the dark about HOW I spent my day ... busy -- but who can remember doing what!
PS -- I too like to keep my sketches in my 'journals' instead of my walls! I think of them as part of my 'story!'
Love the tree. Wow. As to life, yep, I've been "eat up" with it recently...life, that is.
I can't believe how life gets in the way. I am ready to disown my last two. What was I thinking about...multiple teens in the house at the same time.
I can see the face and it's so cute! I'd totally forgotten about the September shopping sprees and all the forms and supplies required for start of school. Thanks for giving me something else to be grateful for tonight--my kids are grown so no more back to school Septembers craziness!
I'm one of those people who is always seeing things in other things; like faces in trees, rocks, puddings, whatever, or flower patterns on toast - all sorts of things. My family find this most amusing. But since my youngest left home 6 months ago now, there is only the poor old dog to share these things with! I love that my DD's are so independent and happy in life and want to get on with it, I love the fact that DH and I can think of our own comfort first have peace and quiet to do and go where we want. But when I read your post, I thought I would swop my peace and quiet for just a few days of my DD's being teenagers again. Time flies past too quickly doesn't it? You miss what you never expected to miss.
Sometimes I don't like it, but other times I'm very happy that my son is already 20!
The tree face is very strange btw.
You put together such an interesting blog Felicity,it,s rather more on a one to one conversation. Didn,t realize you had left Kuwait and was now esconced in Europe.
Irene V.
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