Drawing Class last Thursday

I've been life drawing on and off for many years. A class that meets at Eccleshall Library on some Thursday mornings often has an afternoon session of a couple of hours and I've been trying to get down there whenever I can. Life drawing is very intense - the concentration required for me to see properly often makes me forget to breathe for a few moments! But I'm drawing pretty well at the moment (well, I think so!).
Here's a drawing from last Thursday.

This requires more discipline

So it's months after the first post and I'm finally getting round to writing the second one! I think blog writing needs more discipline if I'm going to make it worthwhile. It's not as though I've nothing to write - quite the reverse: I've been so busy doing things I seem to have found it impossible to take time to write about them.
Most notably I've been climbing a lot on Peak gritstone, once in Wales and taken my favourite walking group for their annual walking holiday. We went to Abruzzo in the Italian Apennines, staying in the fantasy hilltop village of Santo Stefano di Sessanio. I'll leave you wanting more and just add this photo:

After the clocks change

The weather closed in last week - April showers reminding me that Spring weather can be fickle. I took my camera out a few days ago, keen to use my new lens. I managed 20 minutes in good evening light in the Burbage valley. It was rushed but I still got some worthwhile pictures.

Now the clocks have moved forwards I've been out on real rock. I was bouldering last Monday and got a few routes climbed last Friday at Lawrencefield, with Tim, but didn't take my camera out into the flat evening light. The climbing felt good and challenging enough for the start of the 2011 season. Of course, many have been climbing outside for months, but I don't really get going till I can get out in the evenings.