{"id":2863,"date":"2016-04-07T21:49:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T04:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2016-04-07T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T04:49:46","slug":"fruit-bat-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/07\/fruit-bat-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit bat update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well I told you I’d keep you posted on the fruit bowl devastation. \u00a0This is today, pretty much exactly two days after it got filled up.<\/p>\n

To remind you how it started:<\/p>\n

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Two days. \u00a0I live amongst fruit bats. \u00a0(Might have helped the cause a bit myself.) \u00a0I actually think it’s a bit slower than usual, and it looks like red apples are the hot ticket this time.<\/p>\n

All the greens of fruit remind me of how often in the last two days I’ve been distracted by the spring greens. \u00a0A friend’s hosta coiling up out of the ground.<\/p>\n

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The tip of these buds \u00a0and leaves when the sun lights them up. \u00a0I bought these to paint. \u00a0Nice perk.<\/p>\n

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Today I was very pleased to get to the gym and have a beast of a workout. \u00a0I’ll be feeling that tomorrow. \u00a0It’s funny how it gets so much easier to go to the gym and to do some hard work there once the sun starts hanging around more, in spring. \u00a0But before all of that hard work inside\u00a0I sat in my car for a few minutes mesmerized by these greens.<\/p>\n

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As I drive along the highway I constantly wish I could stop and take pictures. \u00a0The sides of the road are just a stunning mix of these bright new greens, all of the baby leaves popping out in this warmth, and the combination of these with the dark greens of the evergreens and the blue sky call to the painter in me. \u00a0The evergreens themselves are looking so happy. \u00a0They really are. \u00a0They spent the winter getting buckets of rain poured down their gullets, and then a month or so ago there were some strong winds that blew away the gunk and split ends, and now I think they look vibrant and healthy and I do think they might even be grinning. In a tree grin sort of way.<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of the day painting these spring flowers. \u00a0They are from a spring sampler from a club that will come into the Pippin line in a couple of months. \u00a0It was painted on 18 count so I was resizing this section of it onto 13. \u00a0I still have to get a border on it. \u00a0A nice peaceful job for someone distracted by greens. \u00a0Only one shade in this decide but I think it might be a new leaf sort of green itself.<\/p>\n

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But now the greens have put themselves to bed and I am ready to drag my gym-exhausted (did I mention that?) body to bed too.<\/p>\n

Goodnight you.<\/p>\n

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