My mind has been on moving back to beautiful Oregon lately. One thing I miss most is the trees. It is the land of conifers and the tallest and most stately is the Douglas fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, my favorite. I tried to draw it from memory today. Pretty clumsy. But, I enjoyed it so much that I'll be making a series of it. I'm gonna keep drawing it until I get it right and you lot will just have to accept my shortcomings in your letterboxes.

I did a drawing a while back with my fountain pen then dropped a drop of water on it. I complained that I wrecked it until I looked closer and saw the way the ink had bled and thought "hey, that looks really cool". I promptly dabbed the whole thing with water and now I'm a bit hooked on that. I also like dirtying up the white.