SPANISH MOSS & LIVE OAK SKETCH

Every year, around October, I look for acorns. There are plenty of Live Oak trees where I live. The Spanish moss hangs from their branches and sometimes, when the right amount of light falls on the mossy limbs, they look like they are being visited by angels.

COFFEE UNDER THE PALM TREE

“Sketches from my Journals”, © 2011 Malgorzata Kawashima

I like that there are 24 hour coffee places, and that the coffee they are selling is drinkable, unlike the coffee served by some diners that are "never closed", but dare to sell bad brew. In tribute to the places that sell a decent cup of java, I am posting a couple of sketches produced in a parking lot of one such establishment while hydrating myself with their medium latte with one sugar:)

DEDICATING DRAWING FROM MY SKETCHBOOK TO MY MOM

 "Early A.M. Feb.27.2007: Oxalis And Other Plants"

Dedicated to the life and the memory of Helena Samek.

Time Travel - 1927

Grandma Karolina and Grandpa Franciszek were both born in the year 1896.
The men wore funny bathing suits then, and cars looked like horse carriages.

I don't have any photos of my own from that era. I can only imagine what my grandparents lived like. But I have an idea about the car that was made in America in 1927, the year that my mom Helena was born: I am presenting here my very own sketch of 1927 Chevrolet Peddler Wagon.