It was just Frances and me sketching at Watson's Nursery this morning. She drove 5 minutes. I drove about 45. I was ambivalent about going due to TV news reports about icy roads, but all the streets and roads were fine from where I live in south King county down to Puyallup.
I was about 30 degrees so rather cold to stand outside to sketch around the nursery. Inside the large sales floor/green house was better but an almost overwhelming about of stuff. I elected to do a montage of gnomes. There were so many gnomes of all types.
Apparently gnomes are popular lately. I thought it was perhaps something special here in the PNW given the Scandinavian heritage (looking at you, Ballard). From what I found on-line, they originated out of Scandinavian folklore and were “house gnomes” who lived in or under the house. They would protect the children and animals from evil or misfortune. In Norway they call them Nisse.
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