Frozen Water & Focal points

We have a lot of snow but it is beautiful out!

Everything is still frozen at the wildlife refuge.

Today I was working with contrast and focal points.

It was fun.

8x10 oil

Last week I got some brand-new Rosemary Ivories- they are so lovely to work with.

Snow!!

Time Sync & Blizzard

TIME SYNC, or lack thereof....

On Saturday when I was out preparing for the upcoming blizzard, I realized what the weird feeling I have been feeling for the last week or so is: I am out of sync with time. 

Just slightly, but enough to feel it.

You see, I know for a fact with every fiber of my being that it is already March.

I know it is already March on a cellular level.

Um, except it isn't.

Yesterday in egg tempera class Valentina and I were talking about this, and she understood it completely.

She said she is also out of sync with time right now.

Then after class I went to the hotline and I was talking with H-- and she also is out of sync with time!

So, it's not just me.

I know an eclipse just happened and I normally don't pay attention to (or care) about stuff like that- and we also have Fire Horse Lunar New Year and in general there is a crazy amount of energy flying around.

I am actually still hibernating, but not as deeply as before.

It's still not time to fully wake up and emerge.

I am still in a bit of a holding pattern.

This past week I have had some wrinkles in my energy- I am in general feeling great, but a couple of energy pebbles hit me in the face.  Both are minor and not a big deal but I feel them more intensely I think because my mood is so good, the energy difference is much greater. Anyhow, everything is fine.

I have worked them out.

I feel like I am slowly coming out on the other side of a major internal transformation, and it dawned on me that last year (from November 2024) I have come through the end of a huge long-term life cycle.

Maybe 2. Whichever the case, energetically I am coming into a new chapter, a new phase of my life.

It's silent- all my external structures are in place, this is all internal shifting.

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I LOVE SNOW!

I LOVE THE BLIZZARD!

Yesterday I left class and had a lot of time before the hotline, so I went for a nice 40ish block walk.

NYPL, main branch....

The Morgan Library

New snow on old snow!

Kedrin said she wanted midnight snow pictures.

Since I was out in the blizzard at midnight coming home, I sent them.

COWS

WE ARE GETTING A BLIZZARD TOMORROW!

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Daya sent me a text earlier.

She has been obsessed with Cream of Wheat, and she ate the 2 boxes I just brought her (with the tuna) already.

She calls it COWS.

I did have to go out to the store before the storm, and I looked for COWS for Daya.

Daya hates pop-tarts, she has since forever, even when she was a little kid she hated pop-tarts.

We both think Cream of Wheat is much better and more important than pop-tarts.

We both know no one else agrees with us.

Frozen Wildlife Refuge

Today was a day off work so I went out painting.

It's nice to be going out again, and we got some more snow last night!

It was either the beach or the wildlife refuge- and since I went to the beach last time in the snow, I went to the refuge.

It's all snowy and frozen!

The water looks so cool!

I didn't go too far in, just my usual route by the water.

All my previous spots are snowy and everything looks so cool! 

If we still have snow this weekend I'll probably go back on Saturday.

8x10 oil

Here are some cool pictures of the snow.

First Plein Air of 2026!

I'm not actually sure if I got my painting mojo back or not... I felt very rusty doing this painting but it was very good to be out.

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Snowy pictures at Brooklyn Botanic!

It's now $22 admission to go in off-season on weekends.

BBG used to be free from Oct-March.

I don't worry about it though, because I always get in free thru Pratt Alumni.

It's the only alumni perk I use, and it's a good one.

This year I will have been going fairly regularly to BBG for 31 years.

I love it there.