PSP posting in the buff...

Nov. the 2nd , 2007 :

Changing my clothes to get ready for a big day of painting!!! : )

Glad you are joining me here...

Started out the morning waking up before the Sun and answering the call off Nature out in the thickets of Salt Water Key. I looked up and noticed the sky was crystal clear with the chill and I could Mars and Venus very well, so well indeed that Mars looked like you could see that it was closer to me than the stars that surrounded it's back. Seeing that the sky was so clear I figured that the sunrise would be spectacular this morning. I saw a shooting star too! So I set out to Driftwood Beach to see the Sun rise. I got all my painting gear up and at them inside Tidelands Nature Center and locked the door behind me and set off down the road. I was looking all around me at the Woods in the pre-morning light to get a glimpse of what should make some interesting paintings. ( I plan on coming back and doing some plein-aire paintings for Sale. ) Right before I got to the Historic district I saw a lone, small, rogue White tail Buck stick his head out of the woods and dart across the road as he heard my Suzuki Burgman driving by. I noticed he had caught a large clump of Spanish Moss on his left Antler. It was super picturesque and I plan on using that image of him running out of the scene towards the forest in the Maritime Mural I am painting! ( Thank goodness for what nature lets you see. )

I saw a beaut of a sunrise at Driftwood beach and noticed a young couple snuggled up in what looked like hotel bed linen leaning back on an overturned tree waiting for the Atens to hit their face just like me. Hee-Hee. I'm not Egyptian. But the sun felt great on my cold face!!! I liked the light as it freshly poured onto the sleeping forest's behind me. ( Wake up bastard trees!)

The Hurricane off the coast has caused much Beach Erosion and has cast a lot of shells upon the beach that normally wouldn't be there. But instead of shell-combing today I headed over to the tree line to study how the soil was exposed by the rough surf last night in high tide. I am doing a cross cut section of Island soil and root systems on the Mural I am doing for Tidelands, so this was a perfect example of how it will look. I saved it in my mind...and now I am back at the center about to paint it. So, have a good day, guys, and remember to get outdoors and look around a little each day. You will never know what you will see... Hee-Hee-Hee. Maybe me peeing !!! ; )

Happy Painting!!! Till next Time...

The Bud.