Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker. And today, kind of taken a break from the normal podcasting that we're doing,

because everybody's taking time off for the holidays.

And I just thought I'd pop on here and just talk a little bit about creative seasons and a seasonal approach to, I would say, creativity and productivity.

Now, as you know, I moved recently to Virginia this last summer.

And for six years prior to that, lived in Arizona where there's only one season really maybe two it's just it's just hot and

less hot we we had maybe a couple days of of cold weather where I would bust out the the cardigan

but something that I'm noticed moving here to virginian just being here for you know

five months already is I have moved through three seasons already um we landed in summer I experienced

my first fall in six years. And it was just amazing.

So many trees here.

Almost every tree was golden yellow or some sort of simmering orange or like a burning red.

I have a neighbor's tree just looked like it was on fire.

And then you have these forest green pines sprinkled in between all the trees.

Now that we've moved into winter, we've had some snow already. The air is crisp. And in the

mornings, when I take out the dog for a walk, it's, you know, it's dark as well. So we're also getting rain too, just all different kinds of weather, wind and things

happening here as opposed to sunshine, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine,

every single day, which is nice for a little while, but eventually it gets kind of old.

I'll tell you this, though, when the sun finally showed itself, we've had clouds, we'd

have rain, but today the sun came out and I went outside and it just like beat down upon me.

I was like, I was getting like this surge of vitamin D.

I was just super grateful for our mother star, right?

I love the change in seasons,

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