Here is the chipmunk's hole, landscaped. I may add a gnome, just for fun. If I do, I'll post a photo. I hope Ringo likes the new decorative touches on the place.

This photo here is a tiny place in the world. It's where I got the idea for my blog name. This little place is in my backyard. It's a chipmunk's hole. The hole has a convenient little exit outside our fence adjacent to the chipmunk's little domain. It's quite homey looking with a little sweetgum tree that is growing over the top of it. I should landscape it! I just had this thought. I'll do that and take another photo and post. Heehee!

I figure there are a few of them that use this little tunnel. I see one or more of them from time to time, especially on sunny days. You don't see a lot of chipmunks in Mississippi, but they are natives. I'm just really, really lucky to have these little critters hanging at my place and calling it home. They are so fun to watch and way cute.

They are fast as lightning too. If you say to someone, "Hey, there goes the chipmunk" by the time you get the words out of your mouth, the critter is long gone. If I could pin down a way to distinguish how many there are and which is which, I'd give them all names. But for now, I just call them all "Ringo."

I felt the need to be creative this evening. But geesh! My creativiy has been very absent of late! Sometimes the muse just is not there.

I often do collage to try and break out of that mode during those times when I just can't seem to squeeze out a drop of artistry. It was so bad this evening that I had a tough time finishing this piece. At one point I actually shoved it into the trash can and began to put away my materials. Something made me go grab it out of the trash a few minutes later, and try to salvage it. I'm just not a quitter. Heehee...maybe I should learn to be one though ;-)

Here is my latest creative effort. It's a collage I've done for my friend Tammy Allen who is the owner of a local coffeehouse near my home. I've been helping her with some creative issues for the new location that will open soon. She thought a collage would be cool for a menu cover and this is what I've come up with. I don't know what, if anything, that she will do with it; but whatever she wants is fine with me.

Tammy's husband Larry is a collector of antiques and the coffeehouse theme is retro, thus the name Flashbacks. Tammy and Larry change out the furniture and other decorative items periodically. You never know what it will look like inside! This makes it a very interesting place to visit, plus the food is great.

The Vanilla Wafers play the last Saturday of each month at Flashbacks. We are looking forward to the grand re-opening so we can get back to playing live music. We have several new songs to perform once we get back to it.

Here is an art doll I made some years ago. I will post another soon. This one's head is made from fat pine that happened to look like a native american head dress to me. With a little trimming and some paint he has a very distinguished profile. That's real rabbit fur I found at a leather shop, and some suede. The moons and stars on the necklace are real turquoise and black onyx. He's stuffed with Spanish moss that I snagged from a tree.

Check out this cool looking mushroom. Looks like the faeries danced holes in the top of this one. I found it out in my little wood recently.

Our family pet, Snickers, AKA: Duane E. Dogg, Weenie Boy, Snix, Snickerdoodle, Snikky, Snikkydoo, Weenie Dog, Skye's Little Man Snickers, Little Man, Buddy, Sweetie, Baby...

He must be really smart because he answers to all these names ;-)

This is a photo I took in my backyard. I like this time of year because there is a lot of fluff floating in the air. It looks dreamy. I put the feather and pebbles next to the stick where the fluff landed and made this little photo montage. I think that is fluff of a thistle. It's too small to be dandelion.

This reminds me of the time a few years back when I was biking through the military park over in Vicksburg. It was a beautiful day. I was coming down a hill really fast, headed straight into a cloud of fluff, with the sun shining, the wind in my hair and the fluff all around, it was a wonderfully surreal moment.

SAVING TIME (SOLD - Amy Berrong, Byram, MS)

This is a collage I did a month or two ago. The theme is a poem I wrote. I like the raven, it lends itself to the theme I think, which is somewhat solemn. I wrote the poem because I feel that my time is slipping away and I have no control over it. Which is true. Really, none of us can delay the passing of time. We can only try as we may to make the best of it.

HOLY CARP! This is my favorite painting by me. I got this idea one day when my best friend Tara and I were joking around. She made some random comment and I responded with "Holy Carp!" She said to me "You should paint that!" So I sketched it the next day and this is the finished fish.