out and about

Sunday October 4

Oh dear, how time flies - into October and still stuck on chapter 5 of Murder in the Gun Room - but Elephant Blue has been out and about , it was at the Big E last weekend and this weekend and did quite well - automatically a favorite for art teachers and early elementary - "oh I can do so much with this"

I have worked up several little scenes for taking Murder in the GR further- it is such a visual process for me - so real that I am almost reluctant to set them down in words - the main character is searching for something to wear to a drinks morning that she has been invited to, she is looking in the cupboard that belonged to an elderly aunt in whose house she is staying, and is surprised to find several shawls and wraps, velvet, chenille, fringed and beaded, voluptuous, sensual - she is transported, and full of questions when did Aunt Serena wear such things, will one of them be appropriate over her black velvet pants, the only faintly dressy thing she has with her, what does one wear for a Boxing Day drinks morning in the country, she is standing in front of the long miror on the back of the bedroom door , wound in a beautiful paisley, fringed velvet wrap, the shadowy old mirror shows her another self, beautiful, calm, elegant ...... was this Serena in the old days, where did she wear the shawl and for whom......

I may change the title to Who is on the Sea Saw, since I originally wanted to have all the W questions, as title words , but i must admit I am very fond of the gunroom