Intricate

Breeze

"The wind blows where it wishes,and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Celebration - Valentines

Happy Valentines

Celebration

Welcome Veda! Congratulations Penelope and Colin!

Time

Time -you thief!- storming forward at your inexorable pace devouring your minions

Climbing

Clamboring up the old playstructure.

Pale

With their bright winterwear the children stood out against the pale snow.

Dream

"I have a dream that ...little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Contained

There's no end the fun possibilities contained in a single cardboard box or in a new year for that matter. Happy New Year everyone.

Similar

All the houses on Picklelily Court were of similar design.

Balloon

Rag Doll was confident her patches would hold, overconfident perhaps.

Tagged

The incomparably talented Alina Chau tagged me.I want to play and so 7 things:

1.I love the Hudson River and often dream about it.

2.When I was 7 my sisters(5 & 4)and I were summoned to the police station because a neighbor(Sammy Say) had accused us of stealing cherries from his cherry tree. The policewoman showed us a jail cell "Yes, that's where they put the bad women" and I remember its walls were completely covered in graffiti. Later my sisters and I would take turns telling "Sammy Say" jokes before we'd go to sleep at night usually involving bathroom humour of one sort or another.

3.I attended school at West Point Military Academy - 7th and 8th grade that is. We were not allowed to wear makeup. Once General Westmoreland's daughter wore white lipstick to school. Big Scandal!

4.I flunked out of High School because I kept going to the park next to our school. It was a magnificent place with a giant chessboard and miniature Russian Orthodox chapel. Later I was accepted at university. Clerical error perhaps?

5.I like those wax lips they sell around Halloween.

6.My dad is from North Dakota and my mom is from the Bronx.

7.I like to swim in the Delaware.

And so I tag Donna
Twisselman
Rima
Scott
Neda

Opinion

Rag Doll didn't cotton to the hifalutin trappins' of big city life. She had herself a mind to skedaddle back to her shanty in Possum Holler away from all the commotion.

Who says hours spent watching a certain TV show amounts to naught.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Pretend

Aha,Monster Thwarting!
Play is every child's right.

Vacant

Rag Doll played her fiddle even without an audience.

Repair

Rag Doll's ramshackle old shanty required constant repairs.

Late

"And let us not talk falsely now for the hour is getting late."

Strings

I just realized I've been doing this blog for 3 years. I have such fun making these pictures and am a total Illustration Fridayaholic. I'm grateful for and incredulous of people's kind encouragements.

Sugary

"Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'Tis a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop Sea;in the garden of Shut-Eye Town"

Eugene Field

Squirrel Again

I played around with this squirrel.