Santa Fe, Nov 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABQ Bosque: Fall Drawings at Tingley Ponds

ABQ Bosque: Shades of Red

Fall in the Bosque

Illustration of the river Bosque and Tingley Ponds in Downtown Albuquerque in early November.

View the drawings.

Drawing: Santa Fe Window

Santa Fe

I attended the 2013 Tony Hillerman Writers Conference by WORDHARVEST in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

With beautiful sunny weather I was able to take some photo illustrations on break of the shop windows on the main plaza.

View the collection at Pinterest.

New Fountain Pen

My Pen

I used the same silver Cross fountain pen for more than a decade. For weeks now it has been lost. I suspect someone picked it up not realizing it was a fountain pen. Disposable ink pens are common property.

I'm old school. I hand write almost anything longer than a couple paragraphs on white paper. I am forever changing or adding notebooks and have the bad habit of losing track of what I've written where. Regardless, typing at a keyboard doesn't replace my ability to organize my thoughts with the flow of ink onto paper.

I stopped by the Pen & Pad store Downtown. After describing my desire for a thin barrel pen with a cartridge which can refilled from a bottle, rather than disposable cartridges, the clerk said she would have choices from their main store the following week. When I returned, she had just one--a black Cross pen. I generally think of myself as more of a silver then gold type, but decided to give it a try.

I considered getting a gold nib, which would double the price. She explained the nibs have improved greatly in the past decade and I might be happy without 18K gold. I can always upgrade later. She was right. I didn't need a dozen choices. I wanted simply the right pen for me.

I am slowly learning to take the advice of others who seem trustworthy to see where the path takes me.

Journal of Drawings, Fall Bosque Trail

 

Bosque Trail in the South Valley

Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 2013

Photo Illustrations

 

 

 

Sandhill Cranes have arrived for the winter.

 

 

 

Farms along the valley.

 

 

Fall Colors.