Archive for April, 2009
Gimli, MB
I’ve never been there, but that island looks pretty cool. This is a drawing in progress for a girl who thought to commission a map of the shoreline near her family cottage for her parents. Very sweet. Good thing the majority of the water space will be taken up with a nice poem, because I’m tempted to fill Lake Winnipeg with sea monsters. It’s a pretty big lake – who knows what’s down there. Actually, I try not to think about it too hard when I’m swimming in the lake. Have you ever seen a musky? Those things are huge! And the fatty snapping turtle that lives under our dock? I’m breaking out in a sweat just thinking about it. At least, if you’re swimming near the dock, you have some slim chance of saving your life by making it to the ladder in time, but what about that long minute waiting for the boat to circle around after you fall skiing? Don’t think about the miles of water/monsters/plane wrecks between you and the bottom… Maybe I should be thinking about where I can hide a dwarf on the mainland instead.
unimpressed
For some reason, last week’s birdhouse drawing reminded me of ostrich heads. I find it hard to think of ostriches as being birds, though. I think everyone has an “I was attacked by a(n) (insert huge bird species)” story. Swans are especially scary. Seriously… have you ever seen one of those things out of water? Totally intimidating. An ostrich could really mess a person up, but I think they give fair warning with their ornary, you-better-stay-away-from-me-chump expressions. Swans, on the other hand, lure unsuspecting victims to their lairs with promises of relaxing and romantic swanback rides. Yeah, well, I’m on to you, swans.
