It's So Black and White

I've been seriously lacking in the creativity department lately, haven't done much sketching and my paint brushes are never seen any more. But the medium I always fall back on is my ink pen. 

When I sketch something it looks so-so, the outline might be rough, or the shading uneven; but ink instead of shading with charcoal is so fail safe, it's hard to make it look bad. Of course the one bad thing about using an ink pen is that once you draw, it's there. There's no erasing anything. It can be good and bad. 

So this is my new obsession, and once I've drawn all of the Marvel superheroes I'll probably move on to sculpting or something. 

November Harvest

I just went out into my garden for the first time in probably the last month. Almost everything was dead, but I did find a few little plants still hanging on :). It reminded me that I never crossed off  "plant and harvest a garden" from my list, so I did that today along with "make the varsity soccer team" and "make a new friend". 

I had forgotten about the extra row of carrots and the green onions that I planted a little too late, the carrots were hiding under the zucchini plant leaves that got bigger then I expected.

 

Ghost peppers that hung on during Sandy and multiple frosts... I still have yet to taste one.

 And then there's the random hydrangea bloom amidst all of the dead stuff. Amazing.  

The only season I really love is summer, but fall definitely has it's moments. Like finding a flower that is still blooming. Or flavouring everything with pumpkin and apples (yesterday I had pumpkin waffles, this morning I made pumpkin French toast, and I'm just waiting for the right time to make apple stuffed sweet bread). Or drinking 5 cups of tea with honey and 2 cups of cocoa; daily. Or, my personal favourite, making a leaf pile with preschoolers while they run around singing "leaf pile leaf pile leaf pile!" (it happens a lot). 

I almost forgot, here are some pictures of THE BEST fall activity. :D