What was she doing in the garden?

While I was drawing this a woman approached the house, opened and went in through the gate, turning right into the garden.

I could see her behind the hedge, flashes of the colour of her clothing between the leaves, doing I did not know what.

Then, after only a couple of minutes the women came back out of the gate, looked left and right, and then walked off, tucking her shirt in her trousers and tidying herself as she walked, leaving me to wonder if she had entered the garden, which might not have been hers, to have a wee.

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While I was drawing this a very tall SUV pulled up, hesitantly, in front of the house.
Then, for probably 7 very tense minutes, while the car crept up and down the street, I thought my drawing session was over.
But eventually, the driver seemed to settle down and decided to park just beyond my view.
I watched the driver, a very short woman with very long permed-looking hair get out.
For a few moments she stood at the car door, looking down and then up and then down and then up the street.
By this time I had put my pastels down and I was frowning, wondering what sort of internal challenge was facing the poor woman.
Eventually, bored by her indecision, I went back to my drawing and didn't even notice when later on she drove off.

 

Pasquale’s garden.

My friends Joe and Jacqui have a new kitchen in their house.
Jacqui always makes tea in a tea pot.
Zeus the wonderdog is there under the table and now they have a big new kitchen island that Joe can stand behind and wipe while he talks kindly and with much care at me.
On the walls of the kitchen hang a lot of art.
I left these three drawings- The Garden, The Porch, The Poolside- with the Pasquales and they had best be hanging in that kitchen the next time I am there.
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