Horror-Scope and Sketches, Photos

I have always called horoscopes, horror-scopes, as I don't give them much credit for accuracy.  After all, just in our immediate family there are three Virgos:  Gene, Mercy and I.  You don't have to know us to know that we are soooo different.  Even politics, ha!  But I regress.

Someone that puts together the scopes in the Austin-American Statesman has been reading my blog!  Take note my horror-scope for today:

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.22)  Those who tell you to believe in yourself are missing the point, which is to get in motion regardless of your thoughts, beliefs, moods or anything else.

That sort of sums up all the advice I was given for getting out of my funk or slump, eh??  And of course, it can apply to all of us.  At any rate it made me smile this morning.

I summed up the advice I was given in my newsletter.  You can read my newsletter and subscribe here if you have an interest.
Jo Knoblock Art

I sketched while on the porch yesterday on the iPad with Brushes and my fingers for Scavenger Hunt 315.  As you can tell, I did not check a photo for reference on either sketch.  The cardinal may be a correct color, but doesn't look much like a cardinal.  The feeder is a good distance from the porch.  Ha.

Number 1, scene - the lake from the porch, you can see the islands are growing and the water is receding.  It was cloudy and gloomy.

Number 2, nature - a cardinal  ??  Chicken, parrot, sort of cardinal.

We have had some rain today!  Yipee!  Not enough for water in the lakes, but nice and wet.  Cool, too, a nice 73 degrees at the moment.

I'm still trying out my new camera.  I went out when it was almost dark and took these photos on automatic.  Not bad.  I had the camera on zoom and then cropped the photos, too.

Toward the eastern lake where we had some fishermen.

 Our neighbors mimosa tree, I think it was darker as I had a lot of yard between me and there which had more light and this was background.  Pretty.

The back porch.