The snow has all gone and even most of the run off. It was finally possible to go and walk along the river without getting too muddy, and we could cross without getting wet. What a beautiful spring evening in the Peace Country.


So far up here in Northern Alberta we’ve had one or two evenings when one doesn’t mind baring one’s fingers for a session of outdoor watercolour sketching. Here is Carolyn’s first outdoor attempt of 2021. Just a local park with a memorial tree, but the benches around it were left out. Probably the funny square of leaves and dirt should have been turned into grass, come to think of it. Oh well.
It was about a year ago that Carolyn sent some little cousins watercolour bookmarks to commemorate an unusual year. Well, a new puppy took a liking to the taste of dinosaurs or maybe watercolours made with honey and a peaceful herbivore, minding its own business, was… divided and made soggy. So there is one replacement bookmark and a new one each for the kids of the household, still enjoying books and puddles and worms even if they are still locked down.