Germs

I have been so cautious around people and isolating that I have no desire to go places that have a lot of people around.

Something that keeps "us" close together

A full day of meetings and talks with zoom. A great way to stay connected when you can't be around people.

Too Many Sweets

Oh when will I ever learn. Eating a lot on isolation day 43. The problem is that this food makes me sleepy and robs my ambition. This last day was a completion of one of my pages of my sketchbook journal which is a 7x10 inch Canson Watercolor Sketchbook.

Coronavirus Journal Entry

I have been keeping an "isolation" journal in my sketchbook journal for 42 days now. My blog has gone by the wayside as I tried to figure out if blogs are still relevant and if people still read them. Most of my isolation journal entries and other sketches are posted on my Instagram Page,https://www.instagram.com/zipchip/ and my Facebook account, https://www.facebook.com/lydia.velarde.

April 25th and 26th journal entry.

Latest Sketchbook page.

Enlargement of my crow mixed media piece.

My bird nest

I have a friend that has a nest collection, one that has a million bird nests in her horse barn and a teacher that talks about them like they are SO very special (which they are). I have always wanted one. Not just to have one but to find one. To see it in the tree, to think about the life it held and all the amazing work the mother bird did to find all the little elements that go into the nest. Carrying the pieces back and forth and creating a birth home for her babies. THAT is why I was so happy when my husband found one for me and brought it to me in it's branch, then showed me another abandoned nest in our orange tree.