Before getting to the art challenge for the day, we had to run errands and decided to do this in a “logical” step-by-step way. First we visited a bog where Susan wanted to look for cranberries. She found some, they were Vaccinium oxycoccos, the small cranberry that tends to bloom before the typical large cranberry. While she was looking fr cranberries I spent the time looking at other things. That’s how I found the bolete pictured above.
For the bog we went to the dump, dropping off our trash and recyclables. Then it was into town to grab two sandwiches for lunch. There is currently only one place open and they were extremely busy, but we got to see Tracy and Tanya, two sisters who were working there, we’ve known them for years when they were both waitresses across the street. We were the only people in town wearing masks.
Now on to the art challenge for the day – and a somewhat related cartoon to start it off.
For the step-by-step challenge I was thinking of using the life cycle of a Harvester butterfly, that I had illustrated years ago, but didn’t have a scan of it so instead am using a “doodle,” so to speak, which is a step by step process.
We had spent a long weekend in the UP in 2000 and were headed home. We stopped at a mall where Alexis wanted to shop at the Esprit store, but not before eating. My paper place mat had foor on it, including a batch of onion rings. So, I pulled out a pen and started finding images hidden in the rings. Most of them were rather fanciful, but in a step-by-step process I managed to illustrate a few images before our food came. I took the place mat home and cut our my “doodles,” gluing them onto a journal page.
Tomorrows art challenge is “desert” which should be fun.
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