Yes, it's raining here. A lot. It's also warm with this morning's temperature at 43 degrees. All of our snow has melted and washed away in the rain. Our forecast was for an atmospheric river of rain over three or four days. I think we are on day 3?
Yesterday I went to art class at the community center. We are painting with acrylics and trying to learn to how to paint clouds. Clouds are very difficult to paint. They are these fluffy looking things made of water droplets or ice crystals, constantly moving and changing. Then there's also the light to consider.
Our art instructors, Kally Thurman and Vera Gadman, are very patient with those of us who have never tried painting with acrylics.
When I searched through my old photos for landscapes with interesting clouds, I found quite a few and have posted them below. The first two were taken as we were traveling thrugh Big Hole country in Montana.
Today will be a good time for wrapping Christmas gifts and working on some cards. I also have some wreathes to make. Fortunately, I gathered the boughs before all the rain began. I'm kind of wimpy when it comes to walking around in the wet grass,etc.
It's time to bake some Christmas goodies and I still need to decide which recipes it will be this year. Almond Crescents, Cornflake Cookie Wreathes, Gingerbread, Sugar Cookies or Chocolate Mint? The choices are many. I do know that I want to bake my Grandma Ella's Date Pudding Cake. It was a hit last year.
I am going to be the lucky recipient of an early Christmas gift from Jon, a new Canon camera, and it will come with a tripod, which can also be used with our cell phones. I can't wait to take photos with it. They say that the new iPhones have better lenses, but I am not ready to part with my iPhone 7. There's something about spending $800 on a new phone, when the one I have works fine for almost everything.
I took all of the cloud photos above with my Canon SX Powershot. I've posted a photo of one of my cloud painting attempts.
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