Once of the books I brought home from the art gallery is The Zen of Seeing, hand-written and illustrated by Frederick Franck. It was published in 1973, before social media, in the same year the first mobile phone by Motorola was introduced. This page is still valid. #artstr #meditation #drawing

GM!

1 reference photo; 3 interpretations: - watercolor only - took 2 days because of layering and letting dry - watercolor & pen - 1 session - watercolor and pencil - 1 session with paper towel clean up and redo - reference photo of ladybug on my Mom’s strawberry plant #artstr #watercolor

Rewatched the movie Quigley Down Under with Mom. Saw Ben Mendelsohn in the cast list, but had to look up who he was in the movie … 🤯 #movie #aussie

Visited a local art gallery. Saw amazing art created by secondary students, bought cards, and donated money to take some art books home. Owl & woodpecker by Sandra Kunz Redtail hawks by Lindsay Piltz Quilt by my mom #art #bookstr #birdstr

Thought of you @Yarnlady 🧶

Got an email that the new MurderBot novel is on its way to me!!! 🎉 I finished reading the previous one, System Collapse (don’t start here; it takes place directly after Fugitive Telemetry and there is A Lot Going On. All Systems Red is the first MurderBot novella - start there.) Am now re-reading the short stories, which can be bought as ebooks or read for free at the following links: - Compulsory -

WIRED

The Future of Work: Compulsory, by Martha Wells

“My risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.”

- Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory -

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Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory - Reactor

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha's Murderbot novel, Network Effect. The s...

- Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy -

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Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor

Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… A 2026 Hugo ...

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Watercolor & pen. Reference photo by @Maria2000 Process photos: - pencil sketch - watercolor - pen - after much deliberation, more watercolor to increase contrast (first photo) #artstr #watercolor

Saw a hummingbird on the morning mountain walk. No photo because OMG so fast!!! So here’s a bumblebee on a balsamroot instead. #proofofwalk #beestr #photostr

Clear the path, remove grass from under the ornamental almond, and cut back the buddleja before it takes over. #proofofwork #garden

Re-reading the previous MurderBot novel in anticipation of the release of the next one in a week 🦾 #bookstr #murderbot

Practicing clouds, mountains, and oceans. #artstr #watercolor

Last week, a bald eagle flew so low and close I could see its eye … I just watched it bank over me and head up to the trees instead of reaching for my phone/camera. Yesterday I saw a bald eagle near the same spot, this time high up on the mountain. Got a photo of a tiny black blob with a smaller white blob on top, so while not a great photo in and of itself, it is a reminder of that previous amazing close encounter. 🦅 #birdstr