Slightly Off Center

Not only didn't I finish posting my Inktober sketches from late October and early November this year...

...I didn't finish last year either.

Whups. Stand by for drawing overload.

I'm managing to keep up with my October drawing challenge, though only just. Don't have time to go looking for things to draw, so I've resorted to catching images from online--or from the new Audobon 2023 calendar that showed up in yesterday's mail. Here's the latest.

Had a lovely birthday yesterday. Denise baked a cake, a once-a-year event. Got me some new jeans--all my old ones are now too big--and a pack of winter sox. Took me to dinner at our favorite Italian place, Beppe & Gianni's.

Best of all, we went down to the Cascades Raptor Center for the afternoon. I'd wanted to go for some time now, and last year we even got memberships, which came with four free tickets, good through this month. So we grabbed my sketchbook and her cane--the site is fairly steep--and spent a lovely couple of hours admiring and sketching birds. Filled two pages of my October challenge journal, vulture, eagle, and a bunch of owls.


Also? She went poking around Goodwill Thursday, and came home with a new bear! He's a classic Chosun Sammy bear (with the signature big feet), same color range as our three Russian bears, Yuri, Dora and Yevgeny. Everyone, meet Pyotr.