I was accepted last month for a week-long residency at the Rockvale Writers’ Colony, and am halfway through my week here now. It’s the first
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I came down with Covid last weekend. I’m fine now, but have spent the week in isolation in my room, mostly lying in bed looking

I’ve finished all the trees except the very most foreground one. That has the branches and trunk where they will be, but the layers that

Mural progress: the foreground trees have trunks that looks like trunks now! I have a few more layers of progressively darker purples to add but

It’s hard to hear, since Alan was in the living room and I was in the home office, but Alan was playing Stardew Valley and
Amused that half of the wild turkeys in our backyard earlier today opted to use the trail we’ve been working on.

The foreground tree trunks are starting to have some texture and the smaller of them has branches now.
A few seconds of Mean Girls in the background.

The background is basically done now, though there’s a fiddly bit above the leftmost tree that I need to fill in with more leaves. I’ve
The new house comes with a quarter-acre of forested land that backs onto about 100 acres of forest owned by a business that sells rustic