Vacation sketch, and a bit of covid

Obviously there was no post last week, and just one sketch this week. Turns out that crud I'd been dealing with was covid. Which explains why it knocked me down so much harder than colds usually do. Four years without getting it was a pretty good run, but it had to end some time, especially with a kid in school. The acute stuff (fever, loss of smell/taste) was short-lived luckily, but the cough is really hanging on, as is the fatigue. I hit a wall in the early evenings now. And since the evenings are the only time I really have to draw it’s slowed that down too. It is gradually getting better. And until I’m firing on all cylinders again I’ll just need to make more use of the weekends and be ok with posting a little less for awhile.

The sketch this week is from a photo from our family vacation last summer. We stayed at a couple places along the Columbia River Gorge. The Dalles is a town I’d driven past many times over the years, and I always assumed it was little more than a truck stop. But it’s a really cute little town, with a lot of trails and historical sites to check out. One minor one was Pulpit Rock. It was actually used as a pulpit by 19th century preachers, and was later declared a monument. Now it sits in the middle of a neighborhood intersection. A little weird, but the kid enjoyed climbing it.