Morning Pages Sept 30-October 1

Again, I did my morning pages but didn’t post them over the last couple of days. I frustrate myself. This little Morning Practice is really a digital journal project, as much about getting myself to quickly journal and upload the image of what I create each “morning” as it is to get into habit of drawing in the mornings—my most creative time.

But oh well. Here I am. Drawing, but not always in the mornings. Posting when I can. We have spent the last couple of days in Boothbay Harbor at a nice little place on the water. Clearly we have arrived late in the season. Mostly just a few retirees passing through. Staff getting ready to leave and many places around the area have signs posted: “Closed for the Season.” “See you in May 2026.”

Most not closed yet though. It’s quiet and quite lovely everywhere you look. Maine is so full of forest and waterways and here on the coast, batteries of harbors, inlets and points and islands just on the horizon. Kind of wish we could take a boat out on the water, but the tourist boats are closed and I would have to kayak alone. I could…but no. It’s cold and getting colder.

Anyway, I’m managing to draw a little as we travel and that is good. Good practice to get outside and draw. I need it! And I had fun. The blue fish is a little bit of collage (chopsticks packet). I’d like to get in more collage going forward.

The Pemaquid Lighthouse is out of proportion because I made an error at the top with the number of rings needed. When I allowed myself to solve the problem by letting go of realism I felt much better.