Nature Notes 2

Okay, I admit I could never get myself tied down by things like 'Watery Wednesday' or 'Sunday Scenery'. That's far too organized for me. I like to keep things as loose and freeform as possible, both in art and in life. It would be torture to me to try to stick to certain themes, especially on certain days of the week. I'm not much of one for memes in general. But I do like my friend Michelle's 'Nature Notes' since it ties in so nicely with this burgeoning time of year, and I do love keeping an eye on nature and seeing what Mother Nature is up to.

So I took about 40 minutes to document more of what nature is up to this week. The crocuses in the back yard are in bloom (the ones in the sunless front yard have not even showed their heads yet). My crocuses are mostly purple, though I have a few mysterious white ones in the yard also - mysterious as I never planted any white ones, and they are growing in a spot where I would never have planted anyway! But the purple ones are looking brave and colorful, even while the ground around them is still mostly brown and bare. So these are my Nature Notes for this week. Done on 9x12 Art Spectrum.

Nature Notes

My friend Michelle, over at Rambling Woods , challenged us to take a look at Nature and see what we saw. Is spring coming? What is happening? Michelle is a true artist with her photography, but my own photos are rarely better than serviceable snapshots - so I had no real nature photos.

But this past weekend I saw my first robin of the spring! My Birds of New Jersey book says robins are year-round residents here, but I never see them in the winter. They always vanish in the fall and return in the spring, and seeing your first robin is always one of the classic signs of spring. I've added some raisins to my bird feeders to hope to entice them to stay around. Last year robins built a nest on my front porch, and it would be such fun if they did it again this year.

So that was surely a sign of spring for me! My photos certainly were not so great. Even this painting is not very good I know. It's a real rush job quickie done in less than 30 minutes, but I wanted to do something to share with Nature Notes and was not sure when else I would have time.

What Type of Blog are You?

LOL, I just got this link from a friend's blog : http://www.typealyzer.com/

You go there and key in your blog address and it analyzes your blog to tell you "what personality is behind the blog" though with the caveat: "Note: writing style on a blog may have little or nothing to do with a person´s self-perceived personality."

 However I'm a sucker for little tests like this. So I had to try it for my own blog. Hmmmm, maybe I'll analyze friends blog too, LOL. Anyway, this is the way I turned out: 

The analysis indicates that the author of
http://www.dcusickart.com is of the type:

ESFP - The Performers

The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves. 

They enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.