Drawing from Life
In my last post, I mentioned that drawing makes me makes me much more observant. This charming pink house is on a narrow side street in Belem, Portugal, and when I saw it, I knew I wanted to draw it. … Read More
The Joy of Traveling Slowly
There is a joy in deciding that time is your friend, in choosing deliberate stillness. Realizing you will never be able to see everything you want to see is actually liberating. When anyone, young or old, begins traveling, the instinctive … Read More
Hadrian’s Sheep
The guards at Hadrian’s wall have changed a bit over the centuries…
Flush of the Gods
Because this is a sophisticated, intellectual site, today’s topic is British toilets. To start with, the variety of flushing mechanisms is astonishing. There are buttons on adjacent walls that require the finger strength of King Kong to adequately push. There … Read More