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Finally, a Day in the Studio! Last on the Card, April 30, 2023

This is the last group of photos I took after Yolanda and I worked on the studio all day long to get art supplies inherited from my dear friend Gloria incorporated into my already-full studio.  It felt wonderful to be able to even get in the door again and the doggies ended up spending the night with me there, too. When I finally noticed what time it was it was 5 a.m.!!!!

I hate it that I made a huge mistake while editing photos. I saw a small version of several that looked like they were mistakes and omitted them.. only find out while i was editing the others that something was missing. When I tried to pull a brush out of the tall glass I had all of the brushed in the first photo in, it wouldn’t budge… nor would any of them! It turns out that the glass I put them into was full of glue.. don’t know how this happened… but all of them were imbedded firmly into it!  I finally got them pulled out en masse but had to cut off the ends of all of the handles to free them.  I took photos of them stuck in the glue and also as I was cutting them of with heavy-duty gardening shears.  So disappointed in my flub.

For Bushboy’s Last on the Card prompt

A Rare Sighting: For Bushboy’s Last on the Card Prompt, Jan. 2023

For Bushboy’s Last on the Card Prompt, here are my two last shots for January, 2023.  So excited to see the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) for only the second time since I moved to Mexico 21 years ago! I was out in the hot tub well past midnight, looking up at the stars, and suddenly realized what I was seeing. Luckily, I had my camera.  You must click on the photos to enlarge them to see the stars. I turned the photo sideways to make the Dipper more obvious as there were lots of stars around it and it was not so obvious tipped on its side.  In the second photo, I included my roof lline to show how the photo was shifted 1/4 revolution to the left.  

Hot Wax, Cold Water


Hot Wax, Cold Water

He who seeks to dip his wick
should study well which girl to pick.
She was a candlemaker’s daughter,
who lived by what her father taught her,
and though he wooed and thought he’d caught her,
melted wax that meets cold water
floats on top and forms a crust
quickly quenching any lust.

If he seeks to woo and win her,
it will take much more than dinner,
pop of cork and candlelight.
A match, a sip and then a bite
are not sufficient to win a dame
accustomed to a candle’s flame.
He’d do much better if at the start

he had sought to melt her heart.

 

For Bushboy’s Challenge: Hot Wax, Cold Water. (To see the original post that prompted this challenge, go HERE. To see Bushboy’s poem, go HERE.