For those who like the MurderBot Diaries by Martha Wells, a Kickstarter is launching on Oct. 15th for a graphic novel of the first novella: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmic-lighthouse/murderbot-the-first-graphic-novel-multi-award-winning-sf #bookstr #comics #murderbot

This arrived months ago, but I just got home to appreciate it: pack of stickers, art prints, and an absolutely gorgeous art book by @NoGood ✌️ Over 260 designed pages, lay-flat binding, sections on past, present, and process. I’ve bought A Lot of artist art books and this 5⭐️ quality. Congratulations on this accomplishment!!! 👏🎉💜 #nostr #artstr #artbook #art

Road trip through Montana and Wyoming. Anyone know what the angled fence-like things are in the first photo? #photostr

British Columbia & Alberta aspects of the Trans-Canada Highway. 🇨🇦 #photostr #canada

GA! Doing my part to support local businesses as they reopen after the wildfire evacuation: cranberry turkey apple brie sandwich on sourdough (not pictured) and blueberry scone (pictured). #foodstr

GM! 11 of 11 on the bad air quality scale at the house, so Mom and I drove a town over for breakfast and walk along a lakeside trail. #photostr #birdstr

A local farmer opened his peach orchard yesterday for picking because the fruit is ripe but most of the migrant workers left during the wildfire evacuation. Mom went out and brought back 2 large bags. Today’s breakfast: fresh peaches and vanilla bean ice cream 😋 #gm #foodstr

Home again! Thankfully no damage to the house, minimal ash/debris to sweep up, and the house interior was far less smoky than I expected. Slowly getting back to normal… while still going to the next town for groceries and anything else because the local businesses need a few weeks to clean up, restock, and re-open.

Rare, non-smoky day, so we visited a Japanese garden in the town we were evacuated to; lovely place with a pond and looping gravel path. A small area of our town was reduced from an evacuation “order” (you must stay away) to an evacuation “alert” (you can be here, but be ready to leave if the fire gets to close). The latest official news said it’s the first of a planned, phased re-entry. Today is our 1 week evacuation anniversary. Hopefully we won’t celebrate a second one. 🤞 #garden #photostr

Some books be like that. #bookstr #reading

Local fruit stand raspberry pie with vanilla bean ice cream. #foodstr #summer

Commissioned a local artist to create a beaded pin of a sea otter. Received it today and it’s beautiful! 🦦💖 #artstr #beadwork

Sketch from a local cafe. I usually don’t draw people, but he was right there at the next table on his own reading, so he didn’t move a lot which was really helpful. 😅 It was also interesting to draw the same thing multiple times and play with abstraction and size on the last two iterations. #sketching

Second round of Mom’s roses. Really glad they came back, as they didn’t get any water while we were away for Mom’s hip replacement trip. #blooming #flowerstr