My son pushes the Rescue Rider all around the porch, most afternoons.

I wish I had bought the peaches today, too.

Greek salad tonight.

The Presidio is too beautiful. It’s intimidating, so I picked something ugly but interesting.

Two lemons, on paper, on our butcher block counter.

Another morning at Crissy field. I ditched the pen and tried to build the image using the crayons only.

Got a dispensation to leave the chaos of dinner-bath-and-bed and headed up to Buena Vista Park to draw the hill. It was a beautiful day in San Francisco today.

Had a heavenly spa day for a friend’s engagement party. It was foggy in SF but beautiful and warm in Napa. It feels like summer is not quite over, yet.

The likeness is terrible, but I am glad I got over my fear and just attempted to capture something of his intensity with playdoh. This seems like a fitting tribute to our first week alone together while his sister is at preschool.

Collapsed in a chair after a long day and drew what I saw in front of me.

View from crissy field parking lot. I intended to add color at home, but have just wanted to leave it be.

This was a drawing done immediately after trying to draw the animals. My frustration was getting the best of me and I needed to stop worrying about how things looked. Constant interruption forced me into the adjacent room, standing up as I tried to build an image.

At safeway, I bought large, hideous-looking plastic animals for my 20 month old son, much to his delight. He kept moving them around the table as I tried to draw them….

This is a drawing of a tree at Crissy Field (notice I misspelled it in my book.)

This is also my first attempt at blogging!