minding the tender shoot

ALT: crayon drawing. A person hovering low over a seed with a little root and three green leaves. They’re just observing, not doing any actions, but I tried to show a certain tenderness in their gaze.

there’s no going back – there never was.

ALT: imaginary landscape in water-soluble crayon, orange/gold and violet. Watery stuff in the foreground, misty gold fields in the middle distance, tall peaks on the horizon, under a purple sky.

S-curve

ALT: crayon drawing of a heron, neck bent in an ess shape, standing in water in a marsh. It’s not very realistic.

dancing in a very small space

ALT: crayon drawing of a person absolutely squished into the confines of the page but still smiling and making a dancerly gesture

time spiral

ALT: crayon and ink drawing. a spiral shape, connected with a reflection below so that it forms a sort of cylinder-scroll, colored purple and pale green. There’s calligraphic imaginary writing on the upper edge of the scroll. The right side of the page has a vertical border like mosaic or stained glass.

the tiny bells that ring out the summer

ALT: crayon and ink drawing of a cricket in the grass, under a full moon. the cricket song is represented by series of dots streaming up to the sky.

I put on my happy hat

ALT: crayon drawing of a big yellow hat with a bright flower and purple band around the crown. I have a hat like that, and wore it to the outdoor concert I went to this evening.

a sheaf of summer

ALT: crayon drawing of a little bundle of grassy plants under a crescent moon, with a swirly pastel background of orange, pink and blue.