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The Answer my Friend is Blowing in the Wind

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Windy days, and warming days here in Texas. And my allergies are in panic mode. But even that doesn’t stop me from trying to find something to capture on my wander/walkabouts.

Bluebonnets are the state flower here in Texas and I found some blooming at the university yesterday. Among some other blooms, magnolias, camilias, and the same Japanese maples I took in the fall are starting to bud new leaves!

But my all time favorites are the silhouettes of birds in trees. At least it’s not fungi.

It won’t be long before the silhouettes will be overtaken by bushy leaves in the trees. I do love a leaf less tree for photo taking purposes. And really they are rather cool looking.  Especially when there are birds in them! I really do love these.

What will Spring Bring? Hopefully some new and unknown territories. But I’m afraid the answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind…but whatever it is I hope it’s good for everyone! We all need something good these days.

Once there was a thing called spring

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Mush faces coming at you! because I haven’t felt like drawing and/or anything really. But these are my new half faces along the pages of my journal.

I do have a new March playlist! You can guess the theme I believe:

March Playlist

I did get out today with camera, and it was the same rather dismal sky. You wouldn’t have believed it was March and the beginning of spring break here. So I won’t show you the same mushroomy toadstools I found today. But I did figure out the big birds I thought were cranes were actually great egrets because that makes more sense around here along the creek beds and such. The other morning it was still dark and I was coming across the bridge over the creek I saw some flying above me. They were huge and graceful! That was cool! Or it could be herons, but I’m thinking they’re egrets. There were three flying above me. So I’m not sure, they looked too wirey to be geese. Who knows they were cool birds flying above me!

Anyway we don’t have any big grand mush adventures planned, but just being with my kids is all that I want to do. And so I imagine we will find something magical even if it’s just a cool rock and/or a new hiking trail.

Change Taking Place

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After Valentine’s Day and the success of the paper hearts, I’ve not figured out my next grand mush gesture. Perhaps, flowers? Perhaps more weirdo birdos…I’m leaning on ostriches. I just feel like a total awkward ostrich. Ugh. Minus the height. I wanted to embody the beautiful and graceful crane, but I am not there yet. Changes are taking place, even as I write, the buds are starting to emerge. Luckily I have photos to prove the emergence of spring in all it’s colorful glory! As well as more fungi or course. Spring is on its way. Something tells me it’s going to be about the same. I don’t know. It’s hard to be hopeful for anything right now. And if there’s anything we can count on, it’s the seasons that come and go. The rise and fall of the setting sun. The constants in our life. I grasp onto that, and simultaneously grow and emerge along with nature. That’s a beautiful thought at least. Because I know I’ll still stay the same no matter what. Stay in my comfortable bubble. Change take place, within me. Let this weirdo birdo fly!

I just couldn’t resist a puddle, but I had to show you the green in the puddles, if you see!

Blooming Heads

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Spring time needs a Bloom Head

I’ve been away from the blog, blooming up some ridiculous heads! But not really, just hustling and bustling…at the speed of a slug …

I always come back to this head with the flower growing from its head. To me it’s like the light bulb moment in the brain, or rather it’s a brain growing, transforming thoughts and creative processes…but also it looks like a decomposing head, so some sort of regrowth, the dichotomy of life and death. Cause this guy looks a little zombified…

and I knew I was going to make a new word today…zombified…

I do hope you’re enjoying Spring in your area…Texas is beautiful this time of year with the wildflowers a growin’ (Bluebonnets ring a bell?) What are some wildflowers that grow in your area? I may get out and do some sketches plein air..those are always fun. Although nothing short of a wiggly little flower and some grass, but what the hell.

Grow

And here is the first Bloom Head, well I called it Grow back then…this has to be from 2010. Now, he looks a little more livelier. And the scan made it blurry and I really don’t know if I have the original drawing anymore. Growth is often blurry then!