Daily Notes- January 6

                                                   

After midnight.  Covered all the Jackson Pollack.  With brown gift wrap paper.  The back side. The front side had these chalk snowflakes.  A bit of a mistake prior to the covering of Jackson's painting gives us the blue oil crayon.  Mostly covered up.

So....finally I am happy with the "make a tree" collage prompt. And I could go to bed and actually sleep.

                                                   

This morning's prompt.  A diagonal line with two images that look like they could have a dialogue.  The top image is of women protesting the cutting down of cherry trees on the mall in Washington DC.  They chained themselves to one of the trees.  And today's young women. Yep. they could talk.
Instead of figurative, I went literal.  Sorry, but that's me. I had the women chained to the tree in the bag of scraps I was using. Had to go look for the modern young women.

Watched National Geographic channel last night.  One Strange Planet and then Mars.  There were two rovers that went to Mars.  I wasn't paying attention or it got no press coverage.  There is going to be a third Rover.  In 2021.  And they are training men and women to travel to Mars after the 2021 rover finds out if it's feasible- there is a cave they might live in out of the dust storms.  Mars, I guess, is a dead planet.  It disrupted it's atmosphere (global warming) and...now it's just wind storms and dust.  The rovers are  collecting evidence of how it will go for Earth if we keep on keeping on as we have been.   It takes two years to get there (for people) and two years to wait to come back.  So they'll be gone 6 years I guess.  Or longer if they are the Martian and get left behind.

Happy to see  a friend in New York will be collaging with us.  You should enjoy it.  And D- I was going to try using the pleats as is but now I might open them up- who doesn't like "extra" fabric?  And they are big fat pleats.

The snowblower needs work.  Won't be coming home for awhile as they need to order parts.  Hard to tell what is happening here for weather.  Rain or Snow.  It's very cold. Very grey.

My paper whites (planted on Solstice) are tall now (which is why I needed a tall glass vase for them) and each stem has a flower bud.  One of these mornings we'll have blossoms.  They have a lovely fragrance which some people find over powering. I may be one of "those" people.

The orchid table looks nice and fresh.  They like to be rearranged after they get watered and fed. Two little orphan bulbs I found in the garage are now sending up little green leaves.  I have no idea what they are.  It will be a Spring Surprise.  I did wash yesterday and reheated it in the dryer for a short time and then folded it- all before breakfast.  I'm going to make a second cup of coffee and, sigh,  take the ornaments off the tree.  It is Epiphany.  The 12th day of Christmas.

I will miss the cheerful lights and sparkling ornaments.  The living room will be well and truly empty when the tree is gone.  We even picked up boxes from the liquor store and the drinks cabinet is empty.  But I kept the boxes close by- just in case I need an emergency Gin and tonic.