The bittersweet

December 2020, in Madrid: Soon I will move to Madrid indefinitely. These days in Charlottesville are sweet, and full of instant nostalgia: there must be a German word for that. The weather has been lovely, and I sit on the downtown mall with friends doing last lunches looking at the varied facades and thiing that I should systematically draw each one. Talking to my garden, seeing the things that will happen after I am gone. Enjoying the camaraderie of fellow figure drawers and the Urban Sketcher group. I have an ambition to keep a Cville blog with lots of pictures but have been absorbed in the minutiae of closing down one life and paving the way to opening another. But maybe soon. A picture a day, perhaps.