8r4dsfeets I assume it’s literally in case London Bridge is falling down… ? #europe2023

8r4dsfeets In London’s Hyde Park there is a definite royal vibe underfoot. #europe2023

8r4dsfeets London, we are here! #europe2023

8r4d Before even making it to the hotel there was a lot of walking and train traveling to be done. #europe2023

8r4d #europe2023 here we come…

8r4d Ready for takeoff at the #airport #europe2023

8r4d My kid is a cartoon character (at the #airport zzz) #travel #europe2023 …

8r4dsfeets Ready to roll… … including the 15 year old and her stuffy.

castironguy I plucked the radish crop out from the #garden in its entirety noting that about 30% of the plants resulted in #goodeats while the rest simply hadn’t matured. I’ll reseed and try for a second late-summer round. But tonight… we feast!

8r4d oh little does she know how hard her adventure is gonna start soon…

castironguy #icecream but actually #sorbet … I tried the #vegan peach iced tea sorbet tonight. yummers!

8r4dsfeets One minute you’re chilling on the couch, the next you’re on a field trip to the local #icecream hot spot in town. #kindicecream

squwetchy As much as I like sketching with ink and lines, the rawness of pure #watercolour (when I can take my brush) is starting to grow on me.

squwetchy There is a fuzzy line at the start of my professional #sabbatical and I am standing inside it I think. Yesterday I was definitely employed. Tomorrow I will be freed. Today? Today I went for a long meandering walk with the dog and sat in a park with my #sketching supplies. (Then I went home and replied to some messages on my work account.) Soon every day for a long while will be crystal clear and filled with art and creating, but today. Today I drew a #bridge … kinda like a metaphor or something?

8r4d One last look as I pack up my backpack for my #lastday #downtown. The team threw a fun little lunch party with pizza and treats and we said our goodbyes and adieus. One job left: hand in my computer and see what happens next.

pixelazy Prepping for vacation I was cleaning up my phone and found this old app buried in a folder that turns regular pics into #tinyplanet artsy pics. I caught the city #skyline from a moving car window and the photo itself was pretty mediocre but it kinda makes for a funky little planet, no?

8r4d Oh, thirty klicks on a #sundayrunday will be my last loooooong #running for a few weeks while we explore a bit more of the world beyond the #yeg #rivervalley … but it doesn’t mean we can’t still have a bit of local fun.

adventuredog oh the epic bliss of a summer walk with an #icecream break in the middle

squwetchy Back in my own backyard I tried sketching the #garden bed and my tomato plants. This was a multi-step #sketch with first laying down a rough big picture, then painting, then adding shadows, and finally after it dried deciding I wanted to add a bunch more ink detail into to central subject, the bed itself, which definitely makes it pop…

adventuredog Sunshine and Saturday walks make this hot dog happy as a pupper.

More adventures in creating stuff outside ended with a quick #watercolour #sketch in the trails and a new #video to profile the whole thing. With a million big ideas in my empty days it’s also nice to grasp onto little projects that I can share in a moment of effort.

8r4dsfeets The theatre beacons but since the doors didn’t open for a few minutes we wandered around and crossed the #train tracks a couple times.

8r4d A Friday evening out on a double date with friends took us to Fort Edmonton and the theatre where we watched a pretty good musical put on by a local company…. plus we got to putz around the park after hours which was kinda cool.

squwetchy In my quest to do more quick #pleinair #sketching I’ve been attempting to think about the idea of the #10minutesketch … which is pretty self-explanatory I think. What can you get on paper in ten minutes? Can it capture the mood and the vibe of a place, in quick and messy wonder? The non-framed picture was painted in a park in about ten minutes.