kokeshikitten just discovered a live lizard in our bed. This is the second one we've found in the bedroom. Thanks a lot, Pippin.

( Chalk this one up under 'You learn something new every day.' )

I was sitting in the living room, watching Miss Congeniality, when I heard a faint "squee, squee" coming from the hallway. I was afraid Pippin had caught a bird (Buster was asleep next to me) so I got up to check it out. I found Pippin at the end of the hallway attacking a laundry basket. Immediately, I knew he had some kind of small animal trapped ( Read more... )

It's a bunny! It's a chinchilla! No, it's a viscacha! I learned about these cool looking animals accidentally, when someone posted pictures of them in baaaaabyanimals. The way they sit, with their front paws resting on their bellies and their eyes closed, I thought they looked very meditative, and they reminded me of cartoonish old wise men, so I set out to draw ( Read more... )

( I call this one Last March )

Let me set the scene: It's 6:30 in the morning, after my second or third night in a row of deep, restfull sleep, and I'm lying in bed, not intending to get up for another hour or two. I'm 3/4 asleep, and dreaming ( Read more... )

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Well, I'm back from my weekend jaunt to San Diego. Went to the Maxfield Parrish exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art, which was excellent. They had the original of Daybreak there, which was stunning, as well as a number of other originals and antique lithographs ( Read more... )

( Fun with pictures! )

( Click, if ye be stout of heart )