HOW MANY LIANA?

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Illustration Friday

I have ( I hope!) joined the Illustration Friday project. For this week’s topic “scale” I thought there might be more than one or two fish scales, weigh scales and music scales. And having spent an hour or so scraping wax scale from some plants I was fed up with that scale! I dithered for a while with the Libra scale, that being my place in the zodiac, depending on how you divide it.
But in the end, I called scale a verb and came up with this. It’s a quick sketch in pen, with water colour.

(now to get the **@#! thing loaded correctly…mutter,mutter…)

Scaling the Wall.

How many liana?,
originally uploaded by dinahmow.

Tinkering in flickr…thought I’d try this. The link will take you to the original one. A ‘plane ticket could take you to the real one!

A showery morning after some reasonable rain during the night and, so far, no more mudslides from the building site! So it’s a good day to take advantage and dash about tweaking unwanted weeds (some weeds ARE wanted.I eat some of them!) and planting a few pot-bound items.

And somewhere along the way I have some artwork to start,finish, plan…Oh yes! Domestic duties, too…pah! “Dashing away with a smoothing iron, she looked so neat and nimble-o…”

I am resolutely avoiding any Christmassy stuff this early! Not so, the stores around town. Good grief! We had kids “singing” carols outside a butcher’s shop on November 3! By the time the Big Day arrives they’ll all be sated and grumpy. Well, I will be!

Of course, the annual parties have to be booked early and most local restaurants have near-full lists already. The artists’ group I work with will be having the final meeting of the year, combined with a lunch this Sunday; early, yes, but we all have other functions piling up, from office parties to school activities. I daresay this is the case for most people. But must we be bombarded with so much artificiality so early?

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Update on Sunbirds

The front stairwell chicks (two) fledged last week and are flitting about on their own. Ma and Pa are once more eyeing the string of small bells over the back stairs and have started tying bits of cobweb in place… At the rate these birds breed you’d expect us to be over-run by Sunbirds! But I guess the attrition rate is pretty high…