Happy 251st Birthday, US Marines

Today is the 251st birthday for the US Marines.  Very cool.  We have had some good times at the Marine Ball and with our own Marine, David.  You can click here to see some posts I  put up over the years here with more photos of family and David.  Here is a poster of "our" Marine from 2008.

Here is the message from  the Commandant of the Marine Corps today:

https://www.cmc.marines.mil/Birthday/

It will be Veterans Day tomorrow so here  is a shot of Gene and David.  Gene was on a missile crew in the Strategic Air Command when he was in the Air Force at the end of the Vietnam War.

Flag was on the Scavenger Hunt from life list.  I sketched at the dining table in the Canson Mixed Media large sketchbook.  Half a page.  I didn't have the flag folded exactly right, no  disrespect intended.  

Number 1 flag - with an Ohuhu 0.2 pen in the large sketchbook. 

Land, Flower and Human Sketches

Another beautiful day.  Wow, love this time of year.  Jennie and I walked around the almost dry lakes/ponds.  I went around once, haven't done that in ages.  Nice break from the porch.  Jennie went around 3 times so I sketched and waited for her on the last bench on the west side.

 For Hunt 203 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-203-oct-25-nov-6.9381/

Number 7 landscape - small tree and dry lake bed.

Number 8 flower - weeds probably, pale green with whitish tops.  

Number 9 human - Jennie with a crick in her neck.  Heh, heh.  In her Denver Broncos t-shirt.

These are in a new small sketchbook. 3.5 by 5.5 inches.   Watercolor Book CLWBO which seems to have good watercolor paper.  I just used a Sharpie.  The book doesn't say on it where it is from so I'm guessing China. Sigh......

 

Our morning walking companions.  We were closer at a couple of points, they sort of stuck with us.  When we were closer they were in the shade.

Hunting Leaves and more....sketch.

I sketched at the table, easier that trying to set up on the porch.  It is still great porch weather and we are taking advantage of that.

I sketched in the Conda sketchbook with a Sharpie and added colored pencil.  I think the coloring took as long as sketching.

 

For Scavenger Hunt 203 https://creativespark.art/threads/scavenger-hunt-from-life-203-oct-25-nov-6.9381

These flowers were a surprise from some friends.  Terry worked with Gene and was his boss in Phoenix.  Such good and caring friends.  Just in time for the Hunt, too.

 

I am not able to care for Gene at home now.  He is in a skilled nursing home in Smithville about 25 minutes from home.  I will see him every day.  He seems to be settling in.  He has only been there since Friday.  That was always our plan but it is not easy to be caregivers and as a family we are hoping it will be the right place.  So far so good.