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Today I'm sharing my video as a #SublimeSunday inspired by @c0ff33a and #BeautifulSunday is initiated by @ace108. I'm also feeling rather like a travel blogger in my own village.

I have a little cottage in a tiny village on Cape Cod and we've many seaside attractions. Today, the attraction was luncheon on the canal at our local restaurant and fish market.

The Fish Market

Of course the restaurant is on the other side of the market but it is indeed where the catches come in from the fisherman into Sandwich marina. Can't get any fresher than when you are on the boat.

My amazing sushi

The only fresher sushi we've had is when we had our sailboat and we'd anchor off cuttyhunk island and a local sushi boat would come around and make it for you on the boat as you watched...that was always a magical time...I miss that boat, but not the cost.

You can watch the fishing boats come in as they pass thru the canal with a view of the Sagamore bridge in the distance (there are two bridges to access the Cape, Sagamore and Bourne.)

Fishing vessel in the canal

I was surprised and happily amazed at this fine gentleman doing his Qigong there on the canal outside the windows of the restaurant.

Gentleman doing Qigong

It was a chilly day as well so God bless him, I wasn't sure if he was a restaurant worker or a local taking advantage of the lovely spot.

I couldn't help but watch him mesmorized, I hope you enjoy his actions in my video. I didn't think it innapropriate as he was doing it in front of the windows for all to see and many were happily enjoying it. It's as if he took us all in and we found a zen place with his movements and the water's current and the fishing boats passing by.

Fishing boats in the Cape Cod Canal en route to the Sandwich marina.

Well, I hope you enjoy my little video and if you find yourself in Sandwich MA on Cape Cod, check out the Aptly named "Fishermans's View Restaurant and Fish marekt" A great spot for sushi as well as

good ole' Fish and chips.

I hope you get a moment to enjoy some travel if not , take a 'trip or holiday' in your own village or city.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/vaivwinf
Today we go out for some retail therapy on the hunt for a cute vessel for one of hopefully many new terrariums.

I've made a space in my studio for some new plants and I hope to make a terrarium wall of sorts. I've emptied out a closet and have painted it out one color, put a few shelves in and want it as display for some terrariums,

A little browse at things in shops sometimes is a good boost to the spirit. Even if we find nothing it can give one a break in the day. In my case, in this video, I did, indeed, find a darling enclosed glass container for my plant.

I hope you enjoy my little day out and the view of the sea in today's video. I hope you also find a moment in your day to indulge in your own passions.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/qfjvdssp
I'm having fun with a new prodcut I recieved at Christmas. A friend of mine gave me some foam clay ,which I'd never worked with before, so I ordered some darling molds (used mainly for food) and decided to make some fun things for my terrariums.

I'm really getting into terrariums this year so the idea of making sweet little things like this to decorate them, just seemed the perfect match.

I'm really enjoying playing with plants and clay and also atually enjoying making short little post card vlogs.This year I've set a goal to capture as much of the year in this format, so I hope that you like it as well. Enjoy and remember to stay creative.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/zujgrlyh
I'm always amazed by the beauty and Nature of this place. Tho I've seen my veiw for years, decades, really ,I never grow tired of it and it never ceases to amaze.

This day was the perfect example of "If you don't like the weather wait 15 minutes." We'd promise of snow, but I was skeptical as I worked in my studio and could hear the rain tap tapping at my window. The weather reports are always being dramatic about 'great storms coming' and so on, but I doubted it.

Then soft Spring-like rain turned to magical snow. and it fell softly but still a bit damp .I was skeptical if i'd stick.

The snow came, it chilled, and the next day was that magical snow that crunches with your steps." And it made for a glorious chilly morning beach comb. Sometimes beachcoming on days like this results in more visual treausres to store away to use as patterns in paintings and fabric design.

The magic and majesty of #nature for certain. I hope you enjoy this little moment of a day and the following morning on the seaside Cape Cod.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/bylqixdf
Today I'm sharing my video as a #SublimeSunday inspired by @c0ff33a and #BeautifulSunday is initiated by @ace108.

I've not done a #sublimesunday in some time and I'm hoping that video is ok. I do have images to accompany it, but I'm not sure I have the "Skill" to place them in the text as I use #3speak. We shall see.

I suppose I could edit it in Peakd afterwards?

However, this #beautifulsunday shall be my sharing one of our sunrises .I'm lucky and blessed to live where I do. I'm a morning person by nature and a creature of routine, so each morning I rise before sunrise and light my fire (laid the night before). With a pot of coffee and an old book (no tech allowed before sunrise) I enjoy the fire and watch the sunrise.

We on the Cape (Cape Cod) are blessed with many wonderful sunrise and sunset. I'm also excited this year as a single blue heron has decided to stay (for the second year in a row) thru the Winter, despit all his chums and his cousins, the snowy egret, heading down south for the Winter.

I've a little fantasy the he, like me, is a poor cousin who is left in Summer houes in the dead of Winter, whilst others get to follow the sun to South Carolina, Florida or overseas.

Yet, I love a summer house in Winter. It's so much quieter. The other houes sit still and silent; doors locked, boats in boathouses, the harbor empty (save the hardworking shell fisherman who also don't get a Winter's reprieve). There is a beauty in the frozen bits of sea left in the shorn brown seagrass as the tide slips out slowly under the low Winter snow cloud sky.

So, today's Sublime sunday is sharing this bit of beauty with you in video form. If I don't figure out how to insert pictures I do hope the video is enough.

I hope you all have a lovely Sunday and find a moment in your day to indulge in your own passions and if you get a chance, watch a sunrise.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/fsrgqdqo
Another little postcard vlog I'm sending out. I've been lax in sharing my art of late, but part of my resolution this year has been a return to video. I've been approaching it as pages in a diary or little postcards to send out to the vast world that is the internet.

Today we catch the tail end of my morning walk from woodland to shore. I've errands to do so as we pop into town, I'll see if I can make a trip to a Big box store fun: that is I'll buy houseplants there to make the triip seem fun and not just errands.

Of course, I'll reward myself with a cup of coffee on the way home, because what better punctuation to the sentence of "To-doing" then a coffee from the local.

I hope enjoy today's vlog and that you find a moment in your day to indulge in your passions. And remember, if you've work and errands, add a little treat in there, might make it seem a bit less awful.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/srcvshcl
Today's little post card I send out to you has us in my studio drawing up herons and flowers and playing with patterns for wallpaper and fabric.

Of course we start the day, as I always do this time of the year, in front of the fire with a pot of hot coffee and some reading material. No tech allowed during this time.

However, in this very video I am in my studio using digital tools. One cannot fault them and the digital world, yet I also begin most of my art with pencil, charcoal, pen stabs and scratches on little journals and pieces of paper. Sometimes I'm even bold enough to sit on the shore and sketch the old-fashioned way however, if you think working online is distracting, try sticking with a theme in your sketch book when a gull is dropping his bivalve breakfasat on a rock or the movement of seaweed in the shallow tide is mesmerizing.

Do you take any moments of your day without being plugged in? Of course I'm not deriding tech, I'd be fool to do so when one considers here I sit typing away this little "post card" to you. But, one does like to have a "balance" of sorts.

Well, I hope you enjoy this little video jaunt in my day. Until next time remember to cherish your little moments of peach and calm and as always remember to stay creative.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/sebgwerg
Good day all, I hope this finds you well.I'm really feeling as if my short little vlogs are postcards I send out to you, so one considers what one used to write on postcards: "All is well, loving Rome, Locals clever and weather good, best to all" or some such.

This little postcard is my daily morning ritual of a fire and coffee followed by a day out. Having errands to run, I stopped at the new chain book store location. I prefer and often frequent our small independent bookshops (some not quite small) but as Barnes and Noble is now owned by Waterstones, they are opening smaller locations that focus on local books, authors and give a free reign to the staff to display their own favorites and such. It really has a 'small book shop' feel, so I stopped there.

I hope all of you have a lovely day and find a moment to indulge in your own passions, I know I try to anyway, in between errands and to-doing of course.

Do any of you make sure to schedule time to indulge in your passions? A moment to read or watch a favorite old movie?

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/svdwfmtq
In my attempts to capture more of my daily life, tho quiet and boring it might be, I'm hoping to share more video.

I like to think of them as little postcards

Taking snippets of my day and encapsulating them into video format does make me feel as if it's an extension of my journal. I always keep a little journal beside me where I have my morning fire and coffee.

It allows me to take the time to jot down any thoughts Im having in the moment. I also make little lists of what I "Hope" to get to that day as well as what "Needs" doing. Looking back on it is always interesting. I can find a spot on a calendar and flip thru it and recall "Ah, I was ruminating on Poe that morning" or "Yikes, I never DID organize that closet in the studio."

I hope you enjoy my little video postcard/diary entry. A trip to my MIL and just a snippet of a moment of an artist living her life by the water (I've always found myself by the water, lucky that.)

I hope you find a moment in your day to indulge in your own passions.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=donnadavisart/ewmeffsg
It's a new year and I'm returning to #3speak. Having had the Summer off and time to reflect I'm ready to attempt to return to that part of my life online.

A great way to start the New Year and Resolutions is to be on the beach and beachcomb of course, my daily activity.

I'm going to share more short videos and simple parts of my daily life living as an artist on the shores of Cape Cod. I hope all of you are excited for the New Year.

It's been sometime since I uploaded to #3speak so I hope I do it correctly and am looking forward to 2024, despite the general feeling of it being rather a "Doom" sort of year. We must find the silver linings for sure.