This shape

I could draw this shape with my eyes closed. It's often what I see when I close my eyes because when we were in St. John's, Newfoundland, this was the view from the bedroom. I would wake up and make out the shape of the hill in the dark. Every morning I would see the sun coming up over it. I snapped a lot of pictures of it, even when half asleep.

I finally sat down and sketched something from St. John's again - this hill, this shape, of course. I did some sketches when we first got back but have had trouble getting back to it because it was making me sad! I did not anticipate the intense sadness I would feel from missing being there so much. I felt like a teenager who had broken up with a boyfriend then regretted it and stalked his instagram. 

There is a live feed of St. John's Harbor on YouTube. I visit it a lot. I can see that hill, though at a different angle than from the bed. But I like to see how it's doing, if the water is rough, what the weather is like. 

On our last full day there, I sketched the hill and other important shapes - the little yard that dropped off to the water, and the view from over the kitchen sink of the hill behind our house. So many good shapes.