Thursday was Vibrant

This is a colored pencil sketch I did a few days ago. The first drawing in the new  house. I like this new place and I like this neighborhood a lOT. It feels better than the old one. I am still tired and getting settled and adjusted which for some reason for me always is a longer process than seems necessary but whatever, right.

There is a corner store around the block that i can walk too - this morning i got a potato, an orange, 3 boiled eggs and a tomato and the guy gave me a free cup of coffee. This is all new to me, having lived in places that were not easy to navigate on foot. Then I walked to work and saw this on the way:

spray painted on a wall. The street art down here is cool, bc this is a relatively small place and there is not a TON of graffiti, so the art is like little gems scattered about...when you see its a nice surprise...amidst the ruin, crumbling walls, closed parks, cracked up streets and abandoned houses.....oleandars, magnolias, jasmine .....and vibrant shutters over the windows of rehabbed houses.