Art everyday month, day 2

I wrote 850 words toward my goal of 50,000 yesterday! Yeah... It's a start.

Here's a sketch from my novel sketchbook, a drawing of the old marble water fountain on the Moon Family Homestead....

Jacob Saberman made it for his wife Tess on their 25th wedding anniversary. I doubt that info will make it into the book though....

still writing

 The novel I just mentioned I am writing ( I am up to 65 pages!) is set during the time the Phlox  bloom...

well in googling "Phlox" i learned these flowers that we have everywhere in June are not even really phlox. they are Dame's Rocket, or sweet rocket, an invasive species, unlike phlox which is native to North America.. They have 4 petals. not 5 like true Phlox. And their leaves are jagged and staggered around the stem unlike Phlox which are smooth and even around the stem. 

I have called them phlox my whole life.

I have probably never even seen real wild phlox.

I feel lied to.

 

So, I decided to use that in the novel. In it, plants already had personalities, so now my phlox have become, not down right liars, but sneaky and mischievous. They just stand there, waving  a little in the shady areas, laughing at our little lives as we run to and fro...