Dreaming and a Walk

 HI everyone. It's the middle of another week already. I think 2024 is going to be here in a blink of an eye.

After Monday's rain storm, we finally got our power back (mid-day Tuesday), and luckily all my piles of towels contained the water in the basement to just one area. The driveway held up; the rain stopped, the sun came out on Tuesday, and the only thing left is for the wet part of the basement floor to dry. 

Today I have another page for Wendy's Above Us Only Sky challenge at Art Journal Journey.

I first used some grey ink to color my sky background. I wanted it to be night, but not so dark I couldn't add anything else. I used a Hero Arts northern lights stamp with purple-pink and aqua inks. I saw the northern lights once way back when I was in college. I was sitting on some rocks in Acadia National Park on a cold night in March, and they appeared out over the bay.  I would love to see them again. They are  also kind of  a surreal and dreamy thing, so I like how they worked with the theme of my page. 

The moon and the face are from  a die cut set. I used the actual die cut moon, but I used the face scraps as a stencil to get a more dream-like appearance. The moon is painted and colored with markers and ink, and I also added some small dots of glitter glue to it. The washi tape is along the edge because my inking was irregular and messy, and the quote is stamped and fussy cut from a Paper Artsy/Alison Bomber stamp set.

Although not at all dreamy, last week I went for another walk at the Urban Forestry Center, this time with both dogs and a lot of mud. Oh boy.

OK, I guess we just had to go through it. 

I was just happy I didn't slip and go down into it. 

Walking with my 2 dogs is always tough because one wants to surge ahead and one wants to stop and smell everything.  

There isn't much color left by now, other than brown and grey.

Unless you look carefully.

Someone has started more forts in the woods.

And the flowers are gone for the next few months.

It was still a lovely walk, even with the mud. Luckily there is a small stream and Miss Maddie, the one who likes mud and being wet the best, was able to rinse off her feet. Pete, on the other hand, caused me to have to do a bit of car cleaning, but Pete's mud was just an excuse  because my car already needed some cleaning. 

Have a great day.