DULL day Doldrums

DULL day Doldrums

sketch of baby but head too small I think.

The nice thing about living in North Texas in the winter is we get very few snowy or icy and freezing days. Most of the time the temperatures hover around the 40 - 55 degree temperature during the day and then we might get a burst of a few  days where the sun comes out and the temperatures jump up to the high 60 and even the 70s so we really should complain. 
Having lived 11 years of my life in a very cold and snowy Montreal winter and even longer in  a damp and dreary English winter , I count myself very lucky to be living where I am now.

That is until we get the "grey days". As Mike will tell you, " I hate dull, dreary, grey days with clouds".It makes me lethargic and really miserable. It can be fairly cold and I can stand it if there is sunshine and brightness but dull clouds are my downfall.
This is the reason I haven't been blogging lately as the dull days of February are here. It puts me in the big doldrums and I can't get enthused to do much of anything.

 I tried sorting out  my computer  to get rid of junk I seem to accumulate. Then I had a go at a couple of really bad mixed up drawers  that really needed it but that all seem so uninspiring to me. I started doing a couple of paintings and neither went well. I started 3 new novels and none made me feel I wanted to keep reading them. The sketch at the top of the page is from a while back but I haven't done much sketching either. I checked out the many gardening catalogues that I still get sent even though I never buy much from them.I love looking at all the flowers and veggies that it would be wonderful to grow but I know it isn't going to happen here and after a while even that gets depressing.

I did order some seeds , wildflowers and grasses , which is a way of making me look forward to the brighter days ahead, I think. 

Tomorrow the sun is supposed to return so back to normal again I hope.
My new seeds might also come.