Compliments

I went down to local park the other day with a good view of the Olympic Mountains.  And I got a chance to paint for the first time, in very long time!

I was able to park in a great spot, thank you dsisabled parking pass!  A very painful scootering course of about 60 feet to an overlook bench, about a dozen trips to get my gear all to the bench.  And, I was now done for the day!  What whimp I have become after six months of sitting on my backside!

My plan was to work quietly and just enjoy one of my first days of semi-freedom - but people!  Yeah, it was a sunny day and across four hours sitting in the sunshine - I might have gotten 20 minutes of painting time!  Literally, everybody, including their grandmothers wanted to talk with me or comment.

Amazingly, as I slowly progressed with clouds, water, mountains and islands - everyone was being complimentary!  It stills looks like a bad attempt by a grade schooler to me though!  I really only intended to a color value study with a rough sketch, any picture I would do I planned to do at home later.

Yet people were being positive towards the picture.  Hmmnnmnm.  Well, old people I can understand, no one talks to them and they are lonely.  I have always liked older people anyway.  So that leaves all of the mothers walking their children to the beach.  No reason they should have felt compelled to be complimentary.

And as I painted, my 9 year old grand-daughter played on the beach, in the water, on the playground and buzzed all over the place!  She had a ton of fun!  Ah, the joys of youth on summer vacation!