New Kitties

How I enjoyed those few weeks of being petless! Never was my house any neater. No cat hair billowing like dust or litter crunching underfoot. But when the stray that Carin and kids befriended gave birth to kittens about the time that my two old cats died, I figured I would end up with one. But two? Oh yes.
They are adorable. And with such wonderful care provided in the first nine weeks of their lives, I am sure they will be great family additions. Here they are enjoying a few restful moments before they go back to playing.

Who do you see in the moon?

My daddy used to say there was a rabbit in the moon. Folklore tells of the man in the moon. But here in Wilmington, I have heard of another possibility. See if you can find the Lady in the Moon. Her profile fills up much of the right side. With her Gibson girl hairdo, to me she looks like a woman from the 1890s.

Tonight's special moon

I had forgotten that this is the night of the lunar eclipse and the super moon/blood moon, but then I saw the big radiant ball of light as I pulled in to the driveway a little before 8. The dark and dusky sky around the moon provided an ominously beautiful setting. I couldn't help but take some pix. This is the one I decided on.

Now

Why have I not been blogging? Actually I have. At least once a week I am responsible for doing the "eblasts" for the art association. They are just posts to their blog that, once I press publish, are sent as emails to about three hundred people. I don't have to be creative or think up stuff. I just have to send out the news that people send to me. I do check over the copy to make sure it sounds ok, and I have to make all the entries look relatively cohesive. And it all makes me feel as if I have blogged when I really haven't. 

That being said, I have really enjoyed hanging out at the studio the past couple of weeks. I realize that what people have said about art and me is true, that I have no confidence. But what I lack in confidence I have made up for in supplies, so I decided I would use what had and have fun doing it. 

So that is what happened, and it was good.  

Sunday Music

I was glad I didn't miss church today as I briefly considered. Though there wasn't anything special, it was just good and revitalizing. Music has always been a main draw for me, and while I love praise and worship music, I enjoy even more the hymns I learned as I was growing up. One of the songs we sang today was "Praise my soul, the King of Heaven" whose lyrics are written by Henry Lyte, English poet and pastor. Looking it up, I learned also that it was sung at the 1947 wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, about five years before she took the throne. Here are the lesser known middle verses. 

Praise Him for His grace and favor
To our fathers in distress.
Praise Him still the same as ever,
Slow to chide, and swift to bless.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Glorious in His faithfulness.

Fatherlike He tends and spares us;
Well our feeble frame He knows.
In His hands He gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Widely yet His mercy flows.

Frail as summer’s flower we flourish,
Blows the wind and it is gone;
But while mortals rise and perish
Our God lives unchanging on,
Praise Him, Praise Him, Hallelujah
Praise the High Eternal One!