Throughout my life, I’ve engaged in activities such as drawing, painting, beading, miniature modeling and -on a more serious level – writing. But the one area that I have taken to a level of high art is … procrastination. I cannot count how many “item #437 on my to-do list” tasks got done simply to avoid a drawing board and water colors. Fearing the need to reclassify these as Former Hobbies, I figured it’s time to do SOMETHING. Anything. Make a pair of earrings, glue stuff together for a collage, do s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g. While pondering this a few months ago, I took off for a Cousins Road Trip to Virginia.

Loved the trip, love my family, loved the Massanutten Resort and its gorgeous acreage. Had my early morning coffee on the deck, enjoying both the beauty and the silence

It was a great week, in about a million ways.

Returning home, I unpacked and found a few “treasures” from my morning walks.

You know, how it seems like a good idea at the time? You save the things for awhile until they get shriveled and unrecognizable and finally thrown away? Yeah, that.

But then I remembered my self-admonishing about ‘do something.’ So I did.

Like most folks who intend to get around to projects someday, I have many supplies for that mythical day. So I marched into my garage and grabbed:

So not only are the memories of my Cousins Trip now preserved, but I also did SOMETHING. Other than drying time, it probably took less about 20 minutes.