#wordlesswednesday "A baby's cheek is pink" [Keller]; an extrovert's dilemma

 

Why my life is like the Commonwealth Games - tripping green lights and gold medals domestic and international #wordlesswednesday

 

#wordlesswednesday Why my life could be like the Commonwealth Games

 

This one is for everyone who got a cuteness overload for these three lion cubs at the Taronga Zoo
When I tried to draw them they turned out more like Olympic - or Commonwealth - mascots.
[The Birmingham one is Perry the bull].
As for the trees - the TREES!
And, yes, I did miss the date - my fingers temporarily thought it was June. #MissTakes

That duotone enters into the whole Jumpers and Jazz mood at Warwick [QLD].
I'm about the grey and the purple at any time.

"Shoulders"! I thought - as I remembered Put me on your shoulders.
Turned out our travellers were caravanning and packing and unpacking said caravan.
Stabilo purple and Apple Images have a history of not playing particularly nicely.
The diamond formations and the sheepskin.
You may recognise the swirls from the curtains.
And the stop mat for the back wheels - it is one of those brake/shock absorbers [the latter which were embedded for me from a Science experiment 30 years ago].

Diamonds are everywhere during this time.
Specifically people finding these mini-diamonds and shaping them into facades.
Also the whole Disney Renaissance Aladdin - diamonds roughened and in the rough.

The colours are so far out on this! It appears RGB Apple does not understand green... #ItsNotEasyBeingGreenIsIt ?
[also this image took a while due to having #TheQueenofMigraines on the 21st and not actually being able to draw anything sensible until the 23rd-24th July

One person is usually the origin point in these crowd-type scenes.
I focused a lot on their legs and new ways to design their torsos and muscles.
#MindSports #SportsPerformance #SportsScience #CommonwealthGames #AustralianDreams

I leave you with  a detail from Small boy and the passing parade.
The woman is standing behind/beside the caravan.
Her feet are near the wheels.
And the bath is below after some white space.

#wordlesswednesday "Where water can go, you can go"

#wordlesswednesday Wish I may; wish I might; why are these images so very bright?

Twist of an Arthur C. Clarke quote:

Any sufficiently differentiated teenager defies the science and creates magic.
When an emerging writer met Frank Herbert when she was 13 - that was a magic moment which took her into a literary stratosphere and made it more approachable.
[let me think - the emerging writer was Catherine someone and she does speculative fiction].
And today's teenagers would have you LISTEN TO and FOLLOW the science.
Isn't that right, Greta and Beata?
#ourhouseisonfire

"As long as you wear your flippy-floppy hat and clean up after the dogs and don't have the dogs clean up after you;
you can go to the beach".

Geology in the garden: shells and rocks of every sort as well as leaves and flowers.
It is a great garden for science and for humanities and both of those sorts of learning.
#thetwocultures #cpsnow

Skating on roller skates.
Facing in the other direction, meanwhile ...
There were some waves which made the young ladies feel like celebrities.

"Keep your friends close and your animals closer!"

When tiredness passes over into overtiredness
it can be very unpleasant for one and one's friends.
Especially as it was past midnight.
Would they get the explorer into the blanket before the witching hour?

"It's not THAT he's frantic - it's what he is frantic ABOUT".
In this case - it was about a puzzle and putting it back from the floor.
"A place for everything and everything in its place".
The little fellow was taught some version of this.

A very sportive pair those two.
Lots of pennants; medals and ribbons.
And jodhpurs and boots in the case of the young lady on the right.
Some look forward to kicking their new footballs; others like to throw balls on or near a wall.

The Gingerbread Kid and the gingerbread cake - along with the gingerbread kid's biggest supporters.
Sometimes people are just too good to eat. Sometimes all you want to do is eat them.
You can do this in a dream.

Our youngest explorer in his grey nightgown and slippers.
It had been a very rainy week and the ground was uneven.
So someone put out the welcome mat.
What was behind the door? Was it a minibar? a refrigerator?

Flowers and balloons and pull-along ducks.
The kind that waddle.
Sometimes you can't choose your nicknames - they choose you.
For example - if people see you waddling like a duck - you get called "Waddle-duck".
"Coursework first - then celebrations!" said the lady in the purple hat and the green dress.

Not many people know that to swoon is to faint.
And f a i n t - one of these young ladies did that
when she was at the most central of Central Stations in Warsaw to meet her friends.
The other young lady is insouciant. As you would be if you travelled first class and expected Firsts in the coming five years.

Dreaming clouds and dreaming stones.
Everyone is supposed to be three stones apart.
And each one has their own cloud.
I believe Dibs said:
Every child should have a tree that is all its own.
Every child should have a mountain that is all its own.

Across from the Bodhi Tree and the misty mountains.
Sometimes the world can be so misty and so frosty.
That is when your shadow self steps in.

Chipotle on the brain! And tomatoes; avocado and so on.
Even malt from the malt shop.

Dreams are very strange things holding them in space and time.
And I don't know how that red got in there.

Some of these animals went on the live export journey
and from the United Arab Emirates to the Fremantle Port Authority they had to come.

Hands and feet and new friends.
If you look very closely you will see the Central Station young man
perhaps when he was very very young.
I think it's the eyes.

Rice paddies are full of work and love, very often.

There are four children and two animals.

And we will end today's adventures with a spa bath or the kind that comes in jets and has towels.