Meanwhile, Down In The Village...

Elevatored down from the mountain top for supplies 
today. After the Mayor assured us all major streets 
were plowed and/or salted. 
Apparently, that meant mostly around City Hall.

Locust Street, major bus route east. Come Spring melt.

Two blocks from my place, just three blocks

from City Hall. Deep ice snow ruts. Illegal 

parking on both sides is a Philadelphia tradition.

Approaching Rittenhouse Square from the west

Only clear streets I saw, on or across the

Ben Franklin Parkway. You can see snow

piled on the Red Tail Hawk nest on the top 

floor right window sill of the Franklin Institute. 

Capistrano has its Swallows. Philly, our Red 

Tail Hawk family. Mr. & Mrs. were seen 

adding twigs to their nest before the snow 

came. Hope, Spring, Eternal!

Hawk Watch blog:

http://sunnydixie.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-new-hawk-year-theyre-back.html

SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS

Nice thing about living on a mountain top

in center city Philadelphia, the view of 

snow covered peaks in the morning after

a blizzard.

Not blogging much lately. Using the time

to practice and learn more about making

digital art. 

Hoping to make it to Carnegie Hall.........

Shop Talk

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Find my cat pins at http://www.etsy.com/shop/ciaocarolina

Getting my morning off to a delightful start.

Message from fellow Etsy.Com shop keeper ArtSings1946 
that she has included my little gray cat pin in her How We Love Our Kitties, Treasury. 
I am honored.

Some of ArtSings1946  charming folk art prints.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtSings1946?ga_search_query=ArtSings1946&ga_

search_type=seller_usernames

All Together

Helping, learning, playing, working and living together.

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Secrets From The Drawing Board

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Better late than never. 

Leading up to the holidays, my head 

has been full of errands and preparations,

rather than the weather. 

So when all the snow fell on the east 

coast I missed sharing my blizzard 

that fell on Washington DC from

WHAT WILL THE WEATHER BE, 

by Lynda DeWitt, HarperCollins.

In the first spread the US Capitol

dome can be seen out the window.

In the next spread, with tongue in

cheek, I drew my dear old friend

Nan N. (in the beret) who lives down 

there, clearing the heavy snow off

her windshield. 

Looks just like her.

Book Illustrators gotta have fun too.

Happy New Year to all!!