There were thousands of geese on this unnamed lake making an awful racket!
Lots happening now we’re back from vacation! Sunday was our 35th wedding anniversary. We had a blast! We live near the Qu’Appelle River valley. It’s a big valley that is home to many market gardens and a few quaint towns…one of which is Lumsden. So we headed out to check out the market gardens and found a treasure trove of autumnal images…
Then headed to the Chinese restaurant in Lumsden for a very delicious meal, before heading home via the back roads and a small town called Pense. We arrived home about time for tea and a nap.
We realized there was an art show on, so we hoofed to the Prairie Artist Guild’s Fall Show and Sale. It was the third day of the sale and most of the good work was already sold. But we were able to see some fine work, especially by Larry Jackson, a local watercolour artist.
In celebration of our anniversary we watched the first Star Wars movie that came out in the evening. It was released in 1977, but was one of the first movies Hubby ever took me to when we were dating in 1979/80.
All in all a great day!
Yesterday I was back into the swing of things. I took my Etsy shop off vacation mode, and posted ten more items for sale.
I also got back to sketching. No twist crayons here, so I’m using watercolour pencils. It feels a bit different. A bit messier to control. But still, it’s good practice to use different media.
Congratulations on 35 years and heres to many more. The valley is glorious in the fall , glad you had a great day
Thanks Kathy! 🙂
Congratulations on another anniversary 🙂 Your mention of the Qu’appelle Valley reminded me of swimming there in my teens–the beautiful blue water hid a secret: it was full of tiny green plants that stuck to the inside of our swim suits–and my dad got terrible hives! The prairie folk (including my dad whose early swimming experiences were in the mud hole at Besant) didn’t mind the plants…but us kids, raised swimming in beautiful Okanagan Lake, weren’t so impressed, LOL! Oh, good on you for keeping up your sketching… I’m taking the Verbal to Visual (http://www.verbaltovisualclassroom.com/) course to force myself to sketch 🙂
Still isn’t a great place to swim. We don’t swim in the lakes around here. Too much algae. Thanks for the link!