Mama holding our first two homegrown Emerald Beaut pluots

It’s a good thing we started this 30-day Art Challenge for September because it’s been a rough month already. Thankfully, focusing on creativity has provided us with joyful moments for #OneGoodThing options.

Sunflowers by Jude Marks, 2019

Today’s inspiration/prompt was garden. Mama drew these wonderful sunflowers in our backyard. We loved finding this one flower nosily peeking onto the other side of the fence—even our garden is filled with nosy parkers!

I sketched and then watercolored our front garden, but I wasn’t terribly pleased with how our crepe myrtle trees looked. I’ve got more work to do on it before it is ready to share. Speaking of, Mama is now ready to share her veggie art from Day 1 (below).

This evening we discovered our first two Emerald Beaut pluots from our tree! This variety ripens late in the season and we’ve been enjoying watching them grow.

Summer Veggies by Jude Marks, 2019

Today’s #OneGoodThing with Mama was our first homegrown pluots and Day 2 of the September Art Challenge! What was your #OneGoodThing today? Please share in the comments! Kindness is Everything.

Day 245 of 365. And Day 1,341 in a row (here’s the first 366, & the following 365, & the third year of 365 good things)!

1 year ago today: Last of the crepe myrtle

2 years ago today: Riding out the heatwave with a variety binge

3 years ago today: #TacoTrucksOnEveryCorner — We can only hope!

6 years ago today: Love dog, will travel