Spirit Haven 2022 -- Day 3

Woke up. Ate the usual breakfast of Vietnamese coffee, rice/kale/beans. Got dressed. Tidied up my sleeping space. Fussed around with my postcards to make them into something else. Fussed around with my supplies. 

Susan and Peggy went to GM to shop and to Artists Point and some other places. I stayed in cabin and on deck. Worked on painting a cup of flowers with the shadow. I was going to draw out the shadow but then decided to put the cup of flowers on the paper and trace the shadow. It sort of worked out. I was calm and patient while I was working on the flowers and didn't rush so the flowers even look like flowers and not like blobs of random colors with green in between. 

Done with that for now and decided to go for a drive. P and S at Artist Point. I drove up the road to Judge CR Magney to look at the campsites. That was my goal. Stopped at some of the beaches along the way to see if they were swimable and didn't swim because I should at least get to where I was going. Went to Judge Magney, at my salad lunch that I packed ahead of time, threw away the fish skin/bones/head from the whitefish, then went back down road and stopped for a swim. Holy smokes it was cold. Still 46F. I thought I was going to lose all feeling. I only went in up to my neck. I couldn't put my head in there. It was even hard just going in to my neck. 

Drove back, stopped to clip some lupines for the house. Took a shower to warm up when I got here. Peggy and I drove up to the Old Chippewa Cemetery and looked for George Morrison's grave site and we found it. Cemetery was small and friendly; you can tell people come here to look after their people. 

On George Morrison's stone: I seek the power of the rock, the magic of the water, the religion of the tree, the color of the wind, and the enigma of the horizon.

Came back to cabin. Had whitefish spread on crackers and smoked cheese on crackers and cocktails. I didn't do anything else. Sat around and watched other people do the same. Turns out the moonrise is almost an hour later tonight than it was last night. Susan and Peggy already in bed. I can wait up until 10:20. Did the dishes.