Terrible Painting Outing

This morning I knew there would be good fog again so I woke up at stupid o'clock (like 6am) to go out and paint it.  Daya has a dr appt at 11 am so I decided to walk over to Flushing Meadows and stay close to home.

This is proof that there really was a Dense Fog Advisory:

.... except that there was no fog.

Since I took all the effort to get up and out, I decided to go paint anyhow.
It was terrible.

Lessons learned....

1. The overpass into the park is at 64th rd. not 67th ave/st/dr whatever.  It's 64th-something.  Not higher.
So I got a little lost on the way over because I went too far east and came out onto the Grand Central at.... 65th -something.  (Dr, Ave, St,  dont know, doesnt matter.  The streets here are insane.)

If you know Queens you know what I mean.

2. Don't paint next to a playground.  Just don't.  Even when there are no kids there, because other people are there with their entire herd of dogs. This lady in the park had a WHOLE HERD of like 5 or 6 dogs, none of them on a leash or properly trained and they were all running around out of control and not listening to her.

I love dogs, I do.  But I DO NOT want them in my way while I am painting, and I do not want them nosing through all my gear because their owner can't and won't control them.  Also, I have solvent and I splash around sometimes. Its not the dogs' fault they are annoying, it is the owner's.

I must have told her 5 or six times to keep her dogs away from me.  The park guy also had to tell her.  It didn't work.  I called 311 and made a complaint... that won't work either.

There is a leash law.  All dogs in public have to be on a leash of no greater than 6 feet.  So this lady was absolutely in violation of the law.  I wouldn't care if they left me alone, especially after asking repeatedly. If you have a dog you MUST respect other people.

There was a very good painting waiting to happen at my spot, I had the whole thing before I started which is generally a good sign but I couldn't get into my groove.  The interruptions from the dogs really pissed me off and interrupted me.  Also I wasn't properly caffeinated and maybe also tired from waking up early 2 mornings in a row....... um and also last night I swam laps for 100 minutes so that was pretty tiring! I think I over-did it.

Over an hour in and the painting wasn't coming together at all and I was pissed off and grumpy- and I wanted to get home and have more tea before leaving again- so I called it done. It's a wipe.

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I was very exhausted today but too caffeinated to take a nap so I went to Chinatown.
And I got a new friend, which has been on my mind for a while now.
I love my new bamboo plant!