After a (glorious) 15-hour day of project work, with 8-hour jet lag still going strong, this is the most beautiful landscape I can imagine...
View from Caltrain window, headed from San Francisco to Mountain View for some meetings.
View from the airplane window...
Recharging various devices before a day of travel. I'll be in California tomorrow afternoon for a few days, and back in London again by Tuesday morning. Long flights, but a fantastic work opportunity and a chance to see family.
From the beach in Wales. With the stripes and rings on this one, it almost seemed plaid.
Black tissue paper from a shopping bag... made me think about ocean waves and rocks.
Containing chocolates. But not for very long...
The edge of a flyer. One of those things we pick up and (perhaps) reread before recycling at home.
Four apples. Not perfect for eating raw, but excellent in apple crisp.
As promised, drawn in pencil. (Water-soluble graphite, so I still got to play with brush and water.)
I haven't seen as much autumn color here in England as I remember from western Pennsylvania - the changes seem more subtle.
Drawn in pen. Maybe I should try drawing a pen with pencil as well...
Ruby grapefruit, though the outside is more of a pinkish orange. It makes me think of winter, and getting boxes of fruit shipped from Florida.
Something like an infinity symbol with an extra twist. Perhaps the twist represents the way there are a nearly infinite number of rubber bands in the world, but only in the places where you don't need them at the moment.
As some of you may know, I was asked to deliver a TEDx talk at the American School in London in mid-October. My talk was entitled, "Do something badly," and a lot of it was about the experience of daily drawing and keeping this blog. The video of that talk is now live on a TEDx channel, so even if you weren't in London that day, you can see it.
Can't help thinking of the song from Pirates of Penzance ("A Paradox") when I am folding laundry. "A pair of socks, a pair of socks, a most ingenious pair of socks..."
I don't get tired of looking at pears at this time of year.
Another view of the same little sea shell.
I'm still unpacking small souvenirs from my trip to the coast.
Autumn flavors.
Stones from the beach in Wales. Now back in London again after my mostly unplugged interlude.
We are staying at a youth hostel in a former lifeboat station. Just up the beach from us is a beautiful ruined stone building, which we visited last night, in the dark, in light rain.
Port Eynon, Gower Peninsula, Wales. Just after sunrise. (I got asked to be an extra chaperone for a school environmental service and leadership trip - what a delight!)
View from the train window, headed from London to Swansea, Wales.
Piece of lens-cleaning paper.
Two glass candlesticks...
A small brown leaf from the front hall floor - they drift into the house after us...
In a blue wrapper. I think it came from a restaurant.
Slumped against the wall at the end of the day.
As it dries, it curls like a hand, or a bird's claw.
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