I voted

...but I politely declined the I voted sticker. "I'm not going anywhere," I told her. No place but back home. We have had heavy rains and thunder all day and I have been happy to stay put. I checked the weather channel earlier and it said "cloudy" in Greenville. Ha! But the national news guys reporting on the primary got it right when they wondered how the downpour would affect the outcome. Not much in my district, the poll workers said. At least now that it is all over in SC,  the deluge of political ads will end. Watch out, Florida. They are coming your way.

In Today's Class

The watercolor teacher stuck with the apple theme today, working on some basics that I really needed. He gave each of us a picture of an apple with a black background and we were to paint it, the apple, in ten minutes flat. That was a perfect challenge for me because I found I knew more than I thought I did. Then we did another (this pic) focusing on the very black background. When we finished we put all our pics on the board. As you can see, they all look pretty much alike. Mine was not that bad.

Who will it be?

If you are busy at work, or if you keep your nose in a book or your head in the sand, a South Carolinian may miss all the hoopla. But if you turn on television, answer the phone, or take in your mail, you would think the upcoming Republican primary is all there is! Since I have made up my mind, I find those ads to be just a waste of air time and paper as well as a source of irritation, but on Saturday, the results will be in and the primary will be history. On local talk radio this afternoon, I heard that the pollsters are scratching their heads because they don't see a clear winner. Good for us! The liberal-type media continues to be mystified by the Evangelicals whom they assume abound in our state. Who will those Christians choose? Actually we are a diverse and growing population with about three million eligible voters, and we will come up with a winner. It is interesting, sort of, being a part of the process.

I love that old time Rock and Roll

The hubby and I went to the Bob Seger concert tonight. Our seats were on the small mezzanine level right near the stage, not too bad for getting the tickets just yesterday. I thought it was a great concert and the rest of the approximate eleven hundred in the audience seemed to think so, too. Bob Seger sang just as good as ever, and at sixty-six he can still move around the stage. There were no pyrotechnics or gimmicks, just great rock and roll music. I took some little videos with my iPhone, but they didn't turn out as well as I hoped and that bummed me out. Anyway...I loved it.

Sometimes an apple...

So far watercolor seems to be one of those things that I have a hard time grasping. I just know that I will get it eventually. After all, it looks so easy! Yesterday was my first class of a new eight week session, and it is with a different artist with a different style of teaching. To begin, he passed around a bag of apples and we each picked one, first to draw and then to paint. I thought…I can do this. But the more I looked at that apple, the more I saw. I saw the light shifting on its shiny red surface and shadows trying to decide where to settle beneath it. There were specks of gold and stripes of Cabernet, a stem springing from a pale green navel.  It was more complex that I could handle! Although I did come up with something that resembled a red apple, the result may not have landed me in the top of the class. I figure it's OK to be a student with nowhere to go but up.