This drawing has waited too long to appear on the blog…. as have several others that I’ll put up in due course. The swim in question was February ’24, the sketchbook drawing was made a few days later in March, the finished pencil drawing might’ve happened in May, I scanned it in August to go into my calendar and finished that in September… but I was to busy, and personal events were too distracting to get round to showing you any of this.
So here it is now.
It is the March picture for my 2025 calendar. Why March? because February was also Mary’s birthday, so that was a fixed and immovable drawing…
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Hello Shallow End, Happy New Year!
Half way to the other end of the lake I hear loud whoops of excitement behind me, and I look around to see who else has ventured out this far.
…Nobody
…the sounds carry from the lakeside despite the strong winds over the water, or
perhaps because of it. Evidently somebody has fallen off the Blue Thing, or fallen in, or got in or out in an amusing fashion, or fallen over attempting to put on a pair of pants, which is always hilarious.
Exposed to the elements, in a shared spirit of comfortably contained endurance and discomfort, fueled by cake and coffee and fresh air and friendship, most things become hilarious to a bunch of mostly lively, mostly middle-aged, mostly women.
I reach the end of the lake.
…”Hello Shallow End, Happy New year!”
The waves, in small peaks, dance in enthusiastic greeting. There is a lovely solitude at this end and I pause, but only for a few seconds. It’s 7.5 degrees or thereabouts: already warm enough to reach the end and back with only sufficient discomfort for it to be entertaining
The sketchbook entry…
A couple of details…
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