Something fishy and some zany clouds

Dear Sarah - Day 135 of our daily drawing exchange

May 15, 2025
Hi Nikki,

I hope you got to your destination today, safe and sound. I didn't go far today--a long in-person client meeting at a cafe, and the grocery store. Not very exciting, I know. It's rainy and cold here, and apparently will be for the next week. Why is it that, no matter how long you have lived in a place, the seasons can still surprise you? There's always a warm spell in April here, when everyone plants things too early, and it's always followed by a cold spell in May, when the tender annuals and the tomatoes cry out Why? Why? from their damp, cold beds.

Anyway, late in the day I decided to draw a doodle that I saw on IG. It all looked so straightforward... It starts with cloud shapes all over the page and you overlay that with lightning and then...well, you can see. Mistakes were made, and I really should have been wearing my glasses!

Tomorrow is a K&K morning--Pro-D day. Maybe we'll stay inside and make art! Who knows? Dinner now. Good lord, it's 7:20, but you're in my time zone now, aren't you? I don't feel so bad about being late. And you may be halfway up a mountain (I hope not--seems a bit late for that).

XO S

Hi Sarah -

I’m not sure when I was last in Revelstoke, but somehow I didn’t manage to see the cool hand-forged steel sculpture called White sturgeon and Kokanee salmon by James Karthein and Kevin Kratz of Ridgeline Metal Works in Crescent Valley BC.

This drawing does not do the rather cool piece (depicting fish swimming along the sidewalk outside the Main Street Café where we had breakfast this morning) justice at all. Rather appropriately, given the school of fish outside, I had a mighty fine omelette with salmon, spinach, cheese, and avocado. Once fortified, we set off and endured a bit more construction before finally arriving here at our BNB in Penticton.

I photographed the fish I attempted to draw from a low angle and sort of nose on so it’s hard to see a) how big it is and b) how it’s sort of curving away from me (so you can’t see the rest of the body or the tail).

We are keeping a close eye on the weather and it seems that perhaps it will be dry enough to climb tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

As for your zany doodle - I don’t see mistakes, just a wild, fun design!

Ciao for niao!
Nikki