How Many Is Enough?

 Over the years, things accumulate. We've had 40 years of travel and I like to buy coffee cups to prompt the memories as I get older. Thus, a huge selection of coffee cups. Wilma and I would always disagree on how many I NEED. With her gone, I can be guilt-free on how many I NEED. 

So, I attacked my collection this week. I pulled them all down from the cupboard and set them on the kitchen island. This had to be sketched!

If you read the sketch, I ended up with 70 coffee cups. BUT some have already been repurposed to hold pens, pencils and loose change, some are hot/cold travel cups (don't count since they are dual-use), and some are easy to give away.

Final count: 31 

Yes, I concede I only NEED one. But that's no fun. I love the memories in each cup. If Wilma's ghost haunts me, I will reconsider. 

The Homeplace

 This is located in Land Between the Lakes in western Kentucky. We like to camp there. The "Homeplace" is an 1850 re-enacted farm. I stop here every time I'm in LBL. This time the house was closed for some roof repairs. So I found a comfortable rock to sit on and did this ink sketch. No pencil layout. I liked how it came out. It is in a sketchbook that I recently re-found. I was camping there last October for this sketch. This one took me a while but I love being in "the zone". I considered applying color but the pen and ink feel told me to stop.

Resting Molly

 I just re-located a sketchbook that had this sketch of my 1.5 year old Lab Molly. She is usually a ball of movement but toward evening she can stay still long enough to sketch. This was back in September. She's both frustrating and lovable to be with. This week she ate a stick of butter.