Hi.  If you've got this far, I'm impressed.  Welcome to this thing I'm trying to do called my own website.  

I've been trying to work on too many things at once - trying to finish up my paintings and get them ready for the Art Crawl this coming weekend (October 15 - 16) and planning my husbands birthday party that happened, and having a shoulder injury that at one point was excruciating (that's better now, mostly) and finally get this website up and running.  I think I'll just get it live, as I have to anyway, because my time trial will be running out!  People, if they look at it, will just have to accept it the way it is until I learn how to do everything and get it tweaked.  

Its kind of a trippy thing for me to do - actually have a website.  I know a billion people have them and give it no 2nd thought.  But for me, it signifies something like "Am I really an Artist"?  I am an artist, in a scale of artists, and I think it's normal to always be watching and salivating over artists that are so much better than you, even if they lived a lived a century ago.  It never was and won't be my "profession" as I'm done my career and it wasn't in the arts!   But it feels a bit more than just a hobby.  

So this Art Crawl coming up is in North Vancouver, put on by the North Van Arts Council and there are quite a few artists - 88 I think - and probably like me, swamped with art that they managed to create while coping with Covid times.  And nowhere to show it, except on some online galleries.  

It's been a weird summer.  The weather started out completely rainy and cool - in July the heat barrelled down on us and I don't remember getting much rain since then.  For us, in mid October, this is unheard of.  Its hard for me to see the stressed plants and trees and I am really hoping there's some rain in our forecast soon as our are of the planet needs a good drink and a bath.  

Thats my blog to start.