In honor of Good Friday, please share a hobby/activity you enjoy.
The only rule is this: it must have nothing to do with publishing or writing. Not to say your hobby/activity doesn’t feed your storytelling brain cells, but if you have one unrelated to writing, this is the day and the space to share it.
And . . . go!
Oh! Me first? You got it!
Target shooting’s my game–if it fires a bullet, I’ll try it.
Okay–your turn, TKZers. What do you do when you’re not writing/reading/editing/marketing?
Paint in watercolor – something I learned in architecture school when projects had to be “rendered” in it on 30×42 inch boards (or perfectly in another medium)… I carry a small kit with me when I go fly fishing (another hobby) – if the fish ain’t biting, I’ll put the rod aside and pull out the small paper, pencil, palette and brushes and let the frustration of fishing (not called catching for a reason), ease downstream… sometimes from the bank, sometimes from the middle of the creek…
Nice! A friend is a professional illustrator. His work is mostly done on a Wacol tablet with extreme rendering software. He had his tablet mounted to his old school illustrator table with the backlight and outline for what the final work needs to fit.
Next to the screens are his pens and pencils. Some million-dollar animations start with pencil and then ink on paper.
Hi George!
“Catching” . . . I like that! My Dad loved to fish, and he would’ve laughed at that one.
There seems to be several artists amongst our TKZers. I don’t know for sure (because I don’t have that gene), but I wonder if painting or drawing the last stroke is kinda like typing (or reading) “The End” on a novel. Could be…
Thanks for sharing this morning, and have a great weekend!
Traveling is my favorite thing, but when I can’t, gardening (in season), and drawing/painting/crafting. Like you, Deb, I love target shooting but the nearest target range is pretty far away, not like when we lived in a rural area and had farmer friends who set up their own ranges.
Hi Becky…
Ha! Traveling is my least favorite thing. If we could perfect that beaming tech, then I wouldn’t mind seeing the world, but it’s the getting there I don’t like. Sigh.
We live near and belong to a local range, so we can go practice as much as we want. 🙂
Thanks for dropping in this morning and have a great weekend.
Love the visual arts like drawing & painting when I have the chance.
Hi Brenda.
As I mentioned, my mom was the artist in the family. I have a great appreciation of visual arts, but have absolutely no talent for creating it. Sometimes I wish I’d inherited that from her, but didn’t happen. I did gain a love of literature and reading from her, though. So there’s that.
Thanks for stopping by this Good Friday morn!
Fortunately, I live 2 miles from the beach, so I spend a great deal of time there ‘decompressing’. There’s something about the view of the Atlantic Ocean from my beach chair, the openness, the lack of boundaries, no distractions, the breeze, the sun, the soothing sound of the waves. It sure does relax me. I often watch the waves roll up the beach, then imagine tossing a problem to the edge of the water and letting the receding wave take it away, far, far away, never to be seen or heard from again. Occasionally, when I’m feeling silly, I’ll wave at the problem as it washes away. See what I did there? Wave and wave?
Hi Henry!
I love, love, love your image of problems rolling away on a wave (and you waving goodbye at it 🙂 ). I wonder if I could come up with a similar image, on my hilltop surrounded by fruit orchards. Hmm…we have coyotes wandering by sometimes. Maybe they would shoulder my burdens and lope off down the hill with them. I’ll get back to ya on that.
Thanks for sharing your view of the Atlantic with us this morning!
I have two, one new. For twenty-something years I have loved doing anything with clay and more recently flying.
Hi Patricia…
You’d have gotten along with my mom over the clay. She was a great painter, and dabbled in clay also. I have several of her paintings, but none of her clay projects. Alas!
Have a great weekend!
Photography
Hi Terry…it seems like many authors are “into” photography.
I take lots of pics with my phone, but they’re nothing to brag about. Mostly of the demon dog, who loves a good photo shoot!
Thanks for dropping in this morning.
Amateur astronomy and astrophotography. Everything from the Moon and the Sun (using white-light filters or a specialized solar telescope) and the planets, to star clusters, galaxies and nebulae, I use a variety of instruments, from binoculars to little “smart” robot-telescopes.
https://bsky.app/profile/daleivan.bsky.social/post/3mhxrany6zs2e
Good morning, Dale.
What a fun hobby! Do you show your photos at art events?
Have a good one, and thanks for the link and for stopping by. 🙂
I have been collecting die cast cars for a long time. Mostly Corgi and Hot Wheels. I have over a 1,000 now. Here are a few. https://share.icloud.com/photos/0db0KNKC2ZC2EZNvWnF-vcEiw
I have a nide pen collection as well. Today I am using a Lamy fountain pen with emerald green ink.
The children got me into Lego. It is very therapeutic, but the house if filling up.
Hi Alan…you and my bro would get along over your die cast car collection. Years ago when we were tadpoles, he had several.
The pens sound interesting, too. Hmm…Legos. I have some friends whose son had lots of Legos. He’s in his 20’s now, but his parents still have fun with the Legos. She made a nativity scene out of them one year.
Thanks for dropping by this morning!
Since 2019, I’ve been making junk journals (they can go all the way from the truly junky to beautiful art). Secondary to that, there’s all the collecting of items that one can put into a journal. Lately, I’ve been toying with the idea of doing bonsai.
Hi Michelle…thanks for dropping in this morning.
I’ve never heard the term “junk journals”. And “bonsai”…never heard of that either.
Care to elaborate?
I took my first blacksmithing class in 2004 and have been doing it as a hobby ever since. There is a local chapter of the national artistic blacksmith organization that maintains a shop/school close by and I have been teaching and demonstrating there for many years, as well as setting up my own small shop at home.