Lord Bunyan?

jb (and Julia if she pops in) will remember Lord Bunyan from the library. He is an actual library customer, but he always has remained a mystery to me as I have never been able to put a face to the name. A few years ago he left his card in the library and we had to mail it to him. I often wonder if he is one of the few self-sufficient customers that I see in the library all the time, but will never know who he is as he never returns his books late or needs help of any sort. It's all a mystery to me... But, I was so smitten with the name that I named a character in the book that I was writing at the time (and have never finished, mind you), Lord Bunyan. My Lord Bunyan is a woodchuck that does not like wood. That's all I'll say at this time. As I was painting this woodchuck this morning, I couldn't help but think of Lord Bunyan (the real one, that is). I wish he would accrue a fine on his card, so that he would have to come up to the desk and take care of it. Then the mystery would be solved. But then again, I may be disappointed, as we so often are when the mystery is solved. So maybe he had better stay an upstanding library customer who returns his books on time and never needs help of any sort.

My Woodchuck was done from a book. In the book, he was painted with realistic colors, but I found that all a bit boring and had to add some red and some violet and some blue. I had never painted a woodchuck before. In fact, I had never even thought of painting a woodchuck before. I have, however, drawn prairie dogs and I do have to say that Mr. Bunyan does look an awful lot like a prairie dog. They must be related. My dog Toots once killed a woodchuck. She killed all kinds of little fuzzy creatures in her day.

As for writing, I did not write this morning, but did write a bit more after my Sunday evening post. I am now at 29,213. I should be able to get to 30,000 tonight.