Staying at Home, and a new IRCA article

 We've started getting requests from Max's providers about online contact with him.  The first was today, and it went well.
  What a new world.  Isolation is one thing, and i thoroughly appreciate the online and other tech connections we can maintain nowadays.*
  A new IRCA (Indiana Resource Center for Autism) article arrived in my inbox.  There's advice about getting assessment and diagnosis for children with autism and mental disorders, followed by a LIST of providers in the state of Indiana & neighboring states whom you might approach for help. If you're in a small town, don't despair.  Most providers are in Indianapolis or Carmel, but several are in small towns and there are some throughout the state.

* You might find these interesting as you enjoy - or not - your self-quarantine.
https://msu.edu/~raezlers/pioneer.html     Not sure why this essay was written, the sort of assignment given, but the writer says about what i might say.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_madness
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ii.041

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: The Field Behind

  A few weeks ago, we drove to Boom's wedding.
  Google says it's 16 hours drive from here, but, what with my needing to get out every couple of hours, we had a motel for a couple of nights each way.
  This was the 2nd one.

  i spent a half hour sketching the view.  The photos, at the beginning & end of the session, do not show the change of light clearly enough. But it does show clearly how wet the weather was: the bench is on concrete, not in a pond!

Creativity at work

A quick demonstration of how a few interesting lines can become an intricate doodle, or rather, a Zentangle.

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: The Beast in the House

  While my new knee, total knee replacement, is doing well (nice to remember what normal walking is!), the swelling in my leg hadn't gone down. So now i have a new diagnosis, lymphedema.
  It seems mine began in adolescence, about the time my legs changed from chubby child to serious thunder thighs.  But it hadn't gotten bad until the stress of the latest surgery.

This is my new lifelong buddy

Wordless Wednesday: Up to the Minute Art

The first picture shows the remains of Cabin Coffee's delicious scone, and a page of practice marks, which i made this morning.  The second is a red flower, with info in the caption.

This is the sort of thing our art club, Indy Decorative Artists, does.  We're meeting again next Monday, and the project is a fabric painted shirt.  For this one, our President, Donna Harcourt, led the group in an acrylic painting from an Angela Anderson design. Mine is interpreted in colored pencils, with the black attempted in various pastels and pastel pencils.  i finally decided that the charcoal pencil gave the best approach to what i was after.