I grew up with comic books. The proper position for reading them was to lay
on one’s stomach head-to-head with a friend.
The storylines might have been simplistic, but they were rife with humor
appreciated by children and teenagers. We
came to know the facial expressions of our favorite characters and absorbed the
lessons of life through the thoughts of dogs, the adventures of ducks, the
antics of teens, and the heroics of heroes.
If any kid wished to emulate the comic book artists, there were books showing one
how to draw in the style with either pencil or ink. Although I was attracted to those how-to
drawing books, I never seemed to have the patience to complete many
pictures. The detail of the tree in the photo above would have been much too trying for me.
Hence, my delight upon
noticing an editing option in my newest phone for turning photos into a cartoon
format.
I’ve not
found much of a humorous nature in the winter landscape. One of my better offers is the above scene that I shall
title “Winter Classroom.” In the last
many years, outdoor schools for children have started up in the most unlikely of
climates. Rainy Seattle hosts a number of
them. In my neighborhood, children would
get to sit in a soft but wet seat and write in snow. Silly, right?
The humor
in this photo of an icicle and its drip is how many snapshots I took before catching the perfect
drip. My dog was by my side and kept insisting
that we were done and ready to go inside.
I said to her, “This is the last batch.”
Then I would laugh and say, “One more batch.” Laugh. “And, one more batch.”
I do love
this new phone option. The photos are beautiful. This one is of the lane outside of my house.
I might just have managed to draw this last photo. The cat of the yellow paws on the top of the print is Chives. The humor is that not
once in her nineteen years did she ever successfully catch a bird. She is exactly like
Charlie Brown – never getting the red-haired girl.
