Lightening up

Every few days I kick back and doodle more squares for next September's luminaria display at the Relay for Life in Santa Rosa, California. I attach four-inch squares to the white bags that will encircle the track at one of the high schools.

I promised a chemotherapy nurse I'd produce 200 by then. I've only made 15 so far so I'm hoping that my private factory will speed up as the year progresses. It's TV time when I can't figure out what to draw in my sketchbook.







The weather has shifted to an obvious fall/wintery pattern. After last week's 80ºs we can tell that it won't happen again in 2009. There have been rainy days, not enough, but a start. Showers are predicted for later this week.

Everything feels different. The Christmas catalog deluge has begun. We wear jackets some days and flip on the heat to ward off the early morning chill.

Is this complaining? No, the opposite. This is my most favorite sort of weather!