Another of Life's Ponderings

Sitting around painting, I emailed C to to tell her to give me a word, a subject, a saying for inspiration. Her word... was 'fart'.

This is what I came up with:

The Sound of Silence by Kathy-rine

If a tree falls farts in the forest
and there is no one around to hear it,
does it make a sound?


Ponder, ponder, ponder.

Peace. Love.

Peace and Love, originally uploaded by scoobers.

... a pair of scissors and little bit of glue.

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Holiday Colors

Art by Benjamen, originally uploaded by scoobers.

Ben was busy honing his artistic skills at my mom and dad's house over Thanksgiving. I took the liberty of putting a couple of his drawings together and adding a few sparkly holiday elements. Enjoy!

My Nephew, The Budding Artist

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Color Me... bored

Here I lay on my heating pad, surfing the net and drinking hot tea. And, oh yeah, did I mention it's raining? Right. So, the other night my friend, SB, found another cool site to occupy our time during down time at work. If you go to Crayola.dot.com there is a Digi-Color page where you can draw, paint and color with your choice of Crayola tools. You Your kids could spend hours there!

A few of us at work held a drawing contest in which the first topic was Milk and Cookies. We had fifteen minutes to create our master pieces. This was my entry:

A Delicious Snack (of your choosing) by Kathy-rine

I know, it's a piece of work alright and the best part is the crayon floating above the cookies. One of the judges, another nurse, said it looked more like a plate of biscuits and a salt shaker. An astute observation and I really could have gone for biscuits with honey and hot tea at this hour of the morning. Anyway, SB won with her portrait of Santa's cookies on Christmas morning. It was quite cute and creative. Unfortunately, I don't have photographic evidence of that one. Then, I was working diligently to complete my entry for the topic of Tropical when, at five a.m., my patient spiked a tem of 104 . Not a good sign when your immune system is shot all to hell. Subsequently, several sets of blood and fungal cultures and a chest x-ray took precedence over my "Bird of Paradise" (to be completed at a later time).
I did not work lastnight but SB did. When I woke up, I had a text message on my phone from about 3:30 a.m. Apparently, things have again calmed down on the BMT unit. This is SB's latest creation:

Tropical Fish by SB

Laying in bed, on my heating pad, loaded up on tea and ibuprophen, with nothing to do (and not to be outdone) I decided to try a Crayola rendition of Van Gogh's "Starry Night". Yes, I need to get a life.

Crayola Starry Night by Kathy-rine




***UPDATE***

SB just texted her Milk and Cookies entry!
And the WINNER IS:

Santa's Cookies by SB

Weekly News: First Oil Painting

First Oil, originally uploaded by scoobers1.

For my weekly new experience I've decided to share my first attempt at oil painting. Please, don't judge too harshly. I've been doing watercolor for a while and a lot of people say that it is more difficult than oil. Now that I've done both I can say, I disagree. I like that if you don't like the way things are turning out you can pile on the paint to cover up the blunders but this technique only backfired for me. I used two tubes of white paint trying to make it right. Plus, the color I chose turned out to look like something you might find in the diaper of a three month old. Hence, the black and white photo!
It was meant to be a gift... but I think I'll hang on to this one and work out something better.