Bumblebee Blog

My mom wrote recently to tell me that she and her two sisters were getting together and would be spending the day painting on the back porch. No, they weren’t painting the back porch, they were painting ON the back porch.

All three are pretty clever and handy with a paintbrush. Sadly, I am missing the clever-artist gene as well as my dad’s handy-fix-and-build-things gene. My brother, Dale, got both. My brother, Chris, got the handy-fix-and-build-things gene. I’m not sure what I was left with, aside from my grandfather’s garden gene. I hope not the cancer and heart problems genes.

She sent photos, which I thought I would share.

Some of her paintings are naturalistic landscapes. Some are just fun, like kissing fishes and such.

I remember when I was growing up that my mom could draw ANYTHING. It seemed to me an amazing talent that someone could actually draw a picture of a person and it would look like…well…a person!

To this day, my drawings are more stick figure than realistic. Sad, really.

Good day today. Harry, Ben and I met my new friend, Vennie, who is from Seattle, for lunch in Annapolis. It was nice to be out and about with three handsome and intelligent men.

–Bumblebee (Robin)

 

Robin