i can't believe how fast the time has flown by over the past couple of weeks. aaron was on school holidays for the easter break so we finally decided to do some major gardening in the front garden bed. i dug out four vines that some crazy landscaper planted when the house was first built three years ago. ground cover would have been understandable but vines in a garden bed with no fence/trellis support??!! they were rampant and were strangling every other plant in the bed.....so out they came. on top of that, the landscapers had also planted two large plants that prefer shady conditions, NOT the sunny position they were planted in. these poor plants permanently looked like they were dying due to all the sun damage.....so out they came too. we replaced all the plants that we removed with plants more suited to the garden and conditions and i'm so much happier with the end result. it was well worth the following three days of severe back pain and body aches.
today, i attempted to do a graphite and charcoal sketch of Charles Ingalls, one of the main characters in the TV series, Little House on the Prairie, which i bought on DVD recently. do you remember it? we have been watching the episodes during our lunch-times and occasionally in the evening. i used to love watching this series on TV way back when i was a teenager. i cry in just about every episode as it can get quite emotional with its life lessons, caring and compassion. sometimes, i wish we could go back to the horse and buggy days as life seemed so much more simple back then....sigh.....
graphite & charcoal in A5 sketchbook
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i have also been working on my Pay It Forward gifts but i can't post pics of them just yet. i missed participating in the photo challenge last week and i'm late for this week's challenge but i hope to have that up over the next couple of days. stay tuned.....
~ love, light and peace ~
