Even though I was officially on vacation on the Cape, I still had to bring work:


The picture book is coming along and I am excited about this new direction, but it is slow going. I admit, it was made slower by the calls of the beach,


where Rain Dragon and I created art of another sort:

shell castle sand ducks and hummingbirdAnd the discovery of the first autumn leaf:


Summer is over.

I'm glad, even though I had to neglect the drawing table, to enjoy some of it.