Departure looms, geraniums bloom
Dear Sarah - Day 302 of our daily drawing exchange
Hi Sarah -
I completely understand why you were taken by the Narnian lamppost. Mr. Tumnus - where are you?
We are rushing to get the final things done (laundry, packing, checking into various flights, returning the rental car, cleaning up after ourselves, perhaps squeezing in a final climb and a dinner with friends) before we catch our ferry on Friday morning. That will be the first of several modes of transportation required/connections we will need to make before we eventually arrive back in Canada a ridiculously long time after we set sail. There’s the ferry from Kalymnos to Kos, a plane from Kos to Athens, another flight to Standsted and then a pre-organized ride to Gatwick, then a few hours of sleep at hotel at the airport, then our flight to Toronto and then another to Ottawa. By the time we see A. and J. at the airport, it will once again be the wee hours and we will have been stressfully underway for far too long.
We have a few days in Ottawa before coming back to Calgary and then home to Canmore. Wish me luck.
The above is one of the panels/pages from the Rome project. I’m more than a little stressed about where I’m at with both projects. Once I get back to Canmore and give myself a day or two to recover from jetlag, I will be under the gun on various fronts - work, school, Littleneck, life.
Argh. Need to more seriously investigate cloning options.
Nikki Nikki
Good lord, Nikki! That travel itinerary is terrifying! I’m not surprised that the school projects are stressful—so much information to process, so little time. What were you thinking, indeed! Nevertheless, I have no doubt that you will pull the projects together, and they will be great.
It’s 8 PM here and I am about to succumb to whatever bug is giving me a headache, a sore throat and the sense that lifting my fingers to type this post is too much effort. I’m heading to bed to try and sleep it off.
In the meantime, here are my still-blooming geraniums, painted a little while ago.
Hope your last day on the island isn’t too frantic. I had no idea you were stopping off in Ottawa. You are a good person (if slightly over-committed at the moment)! And please don’t feel under the gun about Littleneck. All in good time.
XO S
