Anyone else not know what day it is?

This is my 8x8 Dylusions journal in back, the Brooklyn Sketchbook Journal in front

Working on what I want to do for my personal spread in the Brooklyn journal

This woman looks like she was just told her dog died and she has the virus

On our walk early Tuesday morning

Starting to green up. We saw cardinals and blue birds

The things I can get into.....about 6 weeks ago during a Saturday night livestream with the Gulfsprite group, two of the women mentioned that we should all share a Brooklyn Sketchbook as part of the free library. If you are not familiar with this, please go here. To be a part of this project, you simply order a 16 page sketchbook, 5x7 in size, and fill it. There is an option to have your book become part of a tour, and/or to have your book digitalized for anyone in the world to see if they have the individual ID number. One thing lead to another, and guess who ordered the sketchbook? Of course it was me.

The book was delayed due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, but it did arrive last Saturday. There are 6 or 7 of us involved, and I will mail it on to a woman in Wisconsin after I do my two page spread. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do, I just can't get my sketches to smile. Isn't that stupid? Both of the above look like death masks. We aren't in any great big hurry to do this, although if we get it back to Brooklyn by August 15th, it becomes part of the tour. Again, all of this information was given to us pre-pandemic, so that date may have changed.

I am going to pay the extra fee to convert our sketchbook to digital. One woman is in the Netherlands, one in New Zealand, one in Australia, 2 in Canada, 4 of us in the US. When we started this, no one had heard of coronavirus. Now there are warnings about transmitting the disease via the mail, and everyone is kind of skitterish. I look at it this way: I am taking every precaution I can. I keep my own house clean, wipe down surfaces, wash fruit and vegetables, wipe down the inside of the car constantly, and if I get the virus with a paint brush in my hand doing what I love, so be it. But I was also the first one because it is registered in my name. Now if I can only draw a woman who smiles......
Linda