Tornados and Travel Sketchbooks

Sometimes you realise you haven't seen somebody's blog in a while.  I've got my blogrolls set up so that they show the top five or top ten of those I have listed in a category.  Which means if you don't post in a while I have to remember that I should be seeing your blog posts - but they're not there.

I was really shocked to find out this week that the reason that Debbie Kotter Caspari's sketchbook blog Drawing the Motmot hasn't been showing up recently, in my blogroll over in the nature section on Making A Mark, is that her home was blown away by an EF4 tornado in May.  Quite literally.

These blog posts record the event - and how Debbie found her sketchbooks from her travels.

• Surviving the Storm
• A Most Unearthly Sound 
• Love, Sweat and Helping Hands
• Anatomy of a Tornado
• Tornado Chronicles, continued: the stuff we lost, the stuff we found
• Nature is a moody Muse

My reason for posting this here?  I can't do any better than quote Debbie from her last post.

"I swear I heard angels singing when my sketchbooks were found"

From Debbie's post Nature is a moody Muse

It reminded me of one of the reasons why I'm glad I blog about my travels and the sketches I do.  Computers may come and go - but once the images are on my blog they are there forever.

See Debbie Kitter Caspari's sketches from her travels with her sketchbook:

• New England Sketchbook 1: Drawings of the Forest 
• New England Sketchbook 2: Critters ‘N More 
• Panama Jungle Sketches Page 
• Panama Plein Air; The Large Drawings