Our Midweek Muse - Vacation, Real or Imagined

Our Midweek Muse's theme this week is "Vacation, Real or Imagined."  I always tend to go right to something by a lake - a houseboat is a big one for me, or a cabin by a lake, or tent camping.  Or...  secondly, a trip to Africa to see all the wild animals in their natural element.

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Digital Whisper - Butterfly

Digital Whisper's prompt this week is "Butterfly."  Here are my art pieces:

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Sunday Postcard Art - Elvis

Sunday Postcard Art's prompt this week is "Elvis."  Here are some pieces with Elvis performing:

He really was something, wasn't he?

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Try it on Tuesday - Keep it Simple

Our Prompt this time at Try it on Tuesday is "Keep it Simple."  Here are some simple pieces of art:

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Tag Tuesday - Vintage

Our theme this week at Tag Tuesday is "Vintage."  Here are some vintage tags I created:

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Our Midweek Muse - That's Odd

The theme this week at Our Midweek Muse is, "That's Odd."  Here are a few wonderfully odd pieces of art: 

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Sunday Postcard Art - Mushrooms

Our prompt this week at Sunday Postcard Art is "Mushrooms."   Here's my Mushroom Man:

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Digital Whisper - Betty Boop

Our theme this week at Digital Whisper is "Betty Boop."  Here's my artwork:

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Art Journal Journey - Wonderfully Wild

Our theme this time at Art Journal Journey is "Wonderfully Wild."  

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Our Midweek Muse - Bubbles

The prompt this week at Our Midweek Muse is "Bubbles."  Here are a few pieces of art with bubbles:

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Sunday Postcard Art - Jellyfish

Our prompt this week at Sunday Postcard Art is "Jellyfish."  I've never seen a real one, and hope I never do!  But they are pretty creatures - here's my artwork:

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Digital Whisper - Goldfish

Our prompt this week at Digital Whisper is "Goldfish."  Here's my Goldfish art:

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Try it on Tuesday - In the Garden

The prompt this time at Try it on Tuesday is "In the Garden."  Here's my artwork:

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Our Midweek Muse - Weather

Our Midweek Muse's theme this week is "Weather."   I love a good storm!

I've created artwork showing a monsoon in my area of the High Desert in New Mexico.  

We have pretty hot summers here, hot and dry!  Around June or July, we get some relief when Monsoon Season comes, and boy, do we all look forward to these storms!  

A regular day can start out with a gorgeous morning: cool, clear blue skies, not a whiff of wind.  The day warms up, sometimes up to 110+ is reported by my weather station on the top of the hill in my backyard.  Then the wind comes up.  It's a fierce wind and I know we're going to have a storm! 

I gather my four hens, who are free-rangers, and secure them in their coop so they won't get blown around, and then run to lower the patio umbrella.  I give the backyard a glance to make sure everything is secure and right about then I can hear low, long, loud, growling thunder and the raindrops start.  Sometimes big fat drops, huge, will splat on the patio. I get my dog, Charlie, and run into the house, look around at all the doors and windows to make sure they're all closed tight!

Sometimes we'll have large hail suddenly falling in the midst of the Monsoon, pinging on everything.  The rain starts running down the hill I live on until it's like a river going down the street.  The temperature can drop up to 20 degrees or more in a matter of minutes. Thunder, lightning, rain, hail, all at the same time, while we watch out the windows from the security of our cozy little house. 

It's wonderful, and exciting, and the residents of my town always look forward to these storms.  (Frankly, we always need the rain!)  There are always questions and comments and photos posted on our town's Facebook page during and after these Monsoons.  

These storms come up so fast, they catch drivers out on the roads rushing to get home before the roads flood.  If there's a dip in the road, you can't see it because the rivers of water go down the roads, filling up the low spots, and it's easy to get stuck.  We have signs on some of the roads saying, "Turn Around, Don't Drown" at those points to warn drivers not to continue on that road.  

Anyway, a long story to say, I love a good storm!   

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Tag Tuesday - Summer Holidays

The theme this time at Tag Tuesday is "Summer Holidays."  Here are my tags:

I'd love to have a little place right next to a river or a lake; and I'd also love to have a houseboat.  So I guess my Summer Holidays would be be most happily spent near water!  

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Sunday Postcard Art - Sports

The theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art is "Sports." 

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Digital Whisper - Vintage Poster

The prompt this week at Digital Whisper is "Vintage Poster."  Here's my artwork with posters of early motorhomes:

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Digital Whisper - Bathing Beauty

Our prompt this week at Digital Whisper is "Bathing Beauty."  I decided to do a bathing suit model runway show.  I kind of like this first one:

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Our MIdweek Muse - Blue

The prompt this week at Our Midweek Muse is "Blue."  Here are some pieces I've made with mostly Blue:

 

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Sunday Postcard Art - Bird People

Our prompt this week at Sunday Postcard Art is "Bird People."  This was a really fun prompt, and I had a problem picking what to post.  Here are my three favorites:

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Try it on Tuesday - Things with Wings

Our challenge prompt this time at Try it on Tuesday is "Things with Wings."  Here are two things with colorful wings:

 

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