DAY 21: TREASURE
All caught up my friends... I’m getting hungry... X marks the spot! Gotta travel a loooong way to get my Animal Style Burger n fries from In-N-Out!
DAY 22: GHOST
A Three Gulls Halloween at the “New House”, with Puff, the cat. Moms old sheets never looked so cute!
DAY 23: ANCIENT
A little late posting, Oct. 23 prompt is Ancient.
This is Pando, it isn’t a forest, it’s all ONE TREE ! Each stem (trunk) of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical and connected by a single root system. The clonal colony, located in Fishlake National Park, Utah, encompasses 106 acres and has over 40,000 stems (trunks). It’s at least 80,000 years old, which means it’s one of the biggest and oldest living things on earth. -Wiki
I’m not sure if in all our travels across country and back, if we ever visited this park, but there are other smaller clonal colonies in Colorado that I’m pretty sure we did see, as I remember my Mom remarking about the Quaking Aspen trees.
DAY 24: DIZZY
Imagine laying down and looking up through the giant redwood forest and finding that little patch of sky. One could be a kid, enjoying a family outing... one could be smoking a joint and getting high... what if your ashes were scattered here and this was your view...
Along the Russian River, Armstrong Grove, Guerneville, California.
DAY 25: TASTY
It’s Fall... and cinnamon spice is in the air. I chose to copy an etching by James Hulett, 1740-1771, a London engraver. His publisher, George Robinson published it in 1774, “From the beauties of nature and art displayed, in a tour through the world.” I love cooking with cinnamon. Needless to say... it makes our world tasty.
DAY 26: DARK
Busy weekend... Finally finished yesterday’s “Dark” project. This was so totally not what I thought I was going to do , but BAM! Here it is! All dark and twisty... Henry Hall, the original author of a cute child’s song The Teddy Bears Picnic.. rollin’ in his grave... and you know you’re humming the tune.
DAY 27: COAT
Gaia in her Autumn Coat of Many Colors.
DAY 28: RIDE
I love eagles . This reminds me of a trip through Red Rocks on our way to Cottonwood. Watching the eagles ride the thermals for hours on end. What a majestic sight.
DAY 29: INJURED
This is my Tree on the High Place. I drove by it every working day for almost 10 years. It was a lightning strike survivor. Actually several lightning strikes had split the tree, damaging its entire North side, loosing most of its limbs, as well as several on its South side. It was a great perch for the bald eagles in the area, as they would survey the fields for geese, turkey, rabbit and squirrel. Deer would often graze in the nearby corn fields.
IMAGE 30: STUCK
Because we live our lives by movie tag lines, music scores, and funny make-believe character quotes...
When I saw the prompt for today, I immediately thought,”Stuck! STUCK!! S T U C K !!!” (A Christmas Story!) and who remembers Mr. Bill from SNL, back in the 80’s? “Oh NOOOO!!!!” And where would we be without Disney’s “Let’s Go Fly A Kite!” Shawn, Kevin, Robbie, and Michelle!
DAY 31: RIPE
It’s Day 31 and I’ve completed all of INKTOBER 2019! What a fantastic time I’ve had! From Day 1, I’ve waited to draw this image. Looking out the back windows this is what we see...
Life in our backyard in September and October when our persimmon tree starts to drop its fruit. Early mornings, before the sun hits the ground beneath the tree, foggy mornings, or twilight before dark, brings out the deer from the woods behind our house. The woodchuck family and squirrels come, as do the birds, to nibble on the juicy , ripe, fallen sweets. Thank-you my friends and family for enjoying this journey with me.
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