Camping Sketches, Watercolor & Ink

The annual camping trip happened last week. Every year, my sister and I go camping, accompanied by various children, grandchildren, friends and occasionally a husband/boyfriend. But mostly it's just us girls. And always it involves some kind of water to play in. This year we went to Scotts Flat Lake Campground in California. Hot, lots of trees and wildlife. Besides the usual birds and grey squirrels and ground squirrels, we saw deer and ducks and geese. The best part was the night that a baby bear ransacked our coolers and got away with some of our food. The worst part was he got into the Hershey's chocolate bars! Luckily, he either got scared off by my sister waking up, or he just had his fill and left, leaving a trail of food into the woods. We found most of the box of chocolate the next morning, but some bars were so full of disgusting bear slobber they were beyond being salvaged.

The stump sketch above is posted especially for an artist whose blog today also includes some stump art, but on a much more sophisticated level. If you haven't heard of Cathy Johnson, she is a wonderful artist and blogger and is generously offering her CD today to the first 50 people who leave a comment. Check it out at www.cathyjohnsonart.blogspot.com.

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