I've joined deviantArt.  Will take photos of most of my work and upload it.  Why not?  Be nice if others see it.  Have already learned something.  If it's going to photograph decently will have to make my darks darker and my lights lighter.  Wimpy in life, wimpy in art.  Make a statement!
     Severe and damaging storms yesterday.  Lots of damage in Logan Ipswich area.  While walking the dogs watched the back of the storm  march away to the east.  Don't think I would've wanted to watch the front bearing down on me.  Even the back of it was huge, terrifying and beautiful.  Stark clenched clouds slow exploding into cerulean blue.  In the distance wet clay slabs of grey rain pressed upon the land.  On the way home we were helped along by the wind being sucked into the storm.  Isolated groups of clouds joined forces, became one huge front.
     When I got home, after feeding everyone, looked at the radar.  Scary.  Angry red splotches like sores scratching across the map.  All to the east of us.  After dark we got a downpour, 14mm in 15 minutes.  Very pleased as we needed the rain but we didn't need damage.  Lost power for an hour.  Read The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler by candlelight with a glass of red.
      Overcome by gratitude while watching that storm.  Beauty, incredible wondrous incandescent beauty surround us  if we only open our eyes.  Standing beneath overarching wattle trees watching a dozen monarch butterflies flitting between the branches.  Don't know what attracted them but what a sight it made with fluttering leaves and fluttering butterflies with roiling white clouds overhead.  Didn't loiter long.  Thunder coming from the west as well as the east.  Don't mind walking in the rain, do mind getting caught in hail.
     Dice-ing yesterday and again today.  Repotted mature adenium plants.  Amazed at what was hidden beneath the soil - huge hard yellow white, can't even call them roots, more like storage tanks with filigree roots sprouting off the sides.  Had no idea.  Repotted the remaining 14 baby adeniums.  The table is groaning under the weight of baby adeniums.  Have given away dozens.  Overloaded friends and acquaintances with adeniums.  Worse than giving away kittens. 
     Dice had me on the yoga mat during the hottest part of the day.  Cleansing sweat I guess.   But as I hadn't eaten I wasn't attempting a headstand on a full stomach.  Eased back a bit on a few poses.  Very sore lower back and pelvis.  Don't know why.  Better today.
     Carry a small sketchbook in my purse.  Used it to draw Natalia.  Her upside-down-head-under-paw pose and mature-cat-dignified-nap pose.  Caught her too, at least in the upright pose.  Not just any cat sleeping but Natalia sleeping.  The other sketch, as most of her face is hidden under her leg, isn't as clearly her.  Pleased with them.  Fun to do too.  Only 5 minutes or so. 
      Conversely haven't touched the pastel drawing on the easel.  Like the bird, like the horse...well the horse is okay, not perfect, otherwise stuck.  Have these elements that don't work but don't know what to do instead.  So keep retouching horse and bird and leaving the rest.  Waiting for inspiration to bite. 
      Have a egg yolk painted gesso primed canvas waiting.  No tooth.  Need to make a mark and see what it looks, feels like.  That will determine, in part, to what can be painted on.  If it doesn't 'take' the medium, will have to keep it simple and sketchlike.  If it does, what fun!