Landscape of Virginia

The day went well, many things got done. I see how it's gott'n warmer but yet even if it's due to our human activity it still feels ok outside on my bicycle going thru traffic. It was cool, not cold, with a sense of warmed just over the next hill. Here, it's about fifty five to sixty degrees, very comfortable on the bike today. It's nice to be able to go to the gym but even better to bike outside in the real world. I enjoy it to no end. I did another pen and ink last night. It takes about two sittings to finish one. But this deals with characters out in the middle of the street all looking and pointing elsewhere to heal there troubled minds and feelings....when it's all really happening right inside and under there noses. As it is often said, if you want to find it just look under your nose, it's their, right their. So most people spend there evenings watching the latest TV program while I prefer to sit at my desk with pen and paper having fun, ...

Today I was going thru the motions but really feeling kind of like a stuffed bureaucrat only this breed of bureaucrats had on a new set of clothes. In as much as they use to wear a white collar I had on a long sleeved T-shirt and gray Smith Mountain Rock pants. But it's all a learning experience for me, so just because I knew my role is training new office workers in many jobs that others find too tedious to do, I am hopeful that these jobs are those entree type of our jobs for our students. I've asked our students if they like this kind of work, and they love it actually one student said he felt very fortunate to have gott'n to work at this job. The jobs take place in an billing department of a local private hospital. The people are nice and friendly plus it's a good clean environment. The equipment these students use is modern technical stuff which is great for our students to be using in order to be up to standards in the workplace. It's a good pla...

I've been playing around with my pen and inks. I have a lot of fun with them. It's my playground when I have a bucket and shovel standing next to a pile of sand. Or I can dig a deep hole in the dirt with my toy trucks hauling it away. I like using the older nib and holder set of pens. They were the style my Dad used and he gave me his set when I was young, and I really enjoyed drawing with them. With nibs you have to dip the pen in a bottle of ink or they will dry up and you'll loose your linework. It takes a little getting use to in order to work with them effectively, but you can get into them and get use to how they work. It takes a little testing but the affect is great and there is nothing that can take there place in the shape and form of lines that one can get using them. I love using them. One can use different pen nib heads to get different effects of line when one is drawing, and the variety is unique to the pen head or nib one uses. I found onl...