Symbiosis

The question is: What would rhinos like to read? Probably, like all folk, they have diverse interests. This one wants to find out why this bird fellow follows him around, making a home on his hide, wherever he goes. He knows the bird is pecking and removing the ticks from his hide and that is a good thing as it is tough to lumber through life feeling creepy crawly itchy all the time. And Mr. Oxpecker keeps telling him "boy, your ticks are delicious," so the bird is benefiting from their partnership as well. Being the curious type, Mr. Rhino must go to the rhinoceros library and check out a book to find out if there is some kind of scientific name for this phenomenon. It turns out, there is: symbiosis. Mr. Rhino and his stool, unfortunately don't have a symbiotic relationship. The only one that is benefiting in this exchange is Mr. Rhino. As you can see, the stool is beginning to droop a bit. Hopefully, our rhino is a fast reader or he may find himself crashing to the ground before he learns all there is to know about Biology.

I think I had mentioned the other day, that I downloaded google chrome. Boy is it making my Internet life much more pleasant. I don't know what was going on with Firefox and me, but we have officially broken up, unless Firefox finds a way to clean up its act, which it may, eventually... But for now, google chrome is my main squeeze. A browser that doesn't freeze up and crash all the time, is a very good thing. Are we participating in a symbiotic exchange. Yeah, I'd say we are, in a way. We are both benefiting, aren't we?

This is the one Friday per month that I don't have exercise class and I always kind of miss it, despite the fact that it's difficult to get up on and go in the morning. I know I should stretch on my own, but between aerobics and the occasional weight training, how can I motivate myself to engage in a half hour or so of stretching on my own, as well? Going to a class has worked out great, but unfortunately, the class ends next week. Yes, stretching classes will be out for the summer. I guess stretching is not a summer activity?

Before I keep rambling along, I think I will stop here. I hope everyone has a good day. Enjoy the weather before it gets dreadfully hot this weekend. 90 degrees is really too much for May, I think. If I were a rhino, I think it would time for a good mud wallow.

self-censored

Well, I'm no stranger to self-censoring as I have to do it from time to time, but I do hate self-censoring my drawings. I only did this because, as some of you may remember, yahoo censored a perfectly innocent figure drawing that I had posted on my old blog and I don't want to have to deal with that again. I was in the mood for drawing a figure as I haven't done it in quite some time. And as I tend to do, when I draw figures, I morph them into some type of mythical being. I hope it is obvious that she is a fairy. My proportions aren't perfect, but it is a fairly o.k. effort as I am quite rusty with figure drawing. Actually the top half is the best part of the drawing, and unfortunately, I had to cover some of it.

I can't really seem to come up with anything interesting to say tonight. I had a perfectly good day off today, but it was anything but eventful. I could write about not having anything interesting to write about, but that wouldn't be interesting would it?

A drawing for the weekend drawing event

I used to participate in the weekend drawing event almost every week, so I always had a drawing or two from that to post here. For some reason, I had gotten away from doing that and I was missing it. So, this week, I decided I would participate again. It didn't hurt that there were such great photos to choose from. Anyway, I do know that the subject is Mr. Hanna and he lives in the Bahamas and is 90 years old.

So, I broke down and downloaded Google Chrome this morning. My Firefox has been constantly crashing and I don't really like IE, so I have been making my Internet rounds today with a brand new browser. So far, so good. Hope everyone is enjoying their day. I was so tired last night that I fell asleep at 11:00, so I've been up since 7:00. I'm amazed that it's only 11:35 AM as I feel like I've been up forever. I even went through my closet one more time (this was the third round) and got rid of more clothes already. I now have extra hangers.

Baby rhino walking

I'm going to try this and see if it works. If you try to post an animated gif to blogger via the photo uploader, it loses its animation. So, I was just wondering if I uploaded it to photobucket and copied and pasted the code to my post, it would work. *crosses fingers* The animation isn't much, but creating one was one of my goals for the week, so I spent the last couple of hours working on it. And hopefully, here it is. I don't have much else to say tonight. I hope everyone had a good day!

Edited to add, in case you didn't notice, it works! Don't stare at it too long or it might make you queasy.

Happy Mother's Evening

Well, since the day is over, I can't say Mother's Day anymore. So, Happy Mother's Evening to all the mothers out there reading my blog, including my own. As you can see, I'm posting a flower, or more specifically a bud. As usual, my attempts to scan colored pencil were frustrating, but this will have to do. I saw a picture of an allium bud and I thought it was the coolest looking thing ever. I actually like the buds better than the flowers. The reference photo that I used was the only picture of one that I could find that was public domain, but I may do another one using a copyrighted photo as there are much more interesting looking buds out there. I'm not selling the work, anyway.

To those that know how obsessed I was with eating a donut last night and that my attempts to procure one were futile, you may be happy to know that I did get to eat one tonight. It was delicious and now my craving has been satisfied, so all is right with the world...

In other news, I think it's possible that I'm coming down with a cold or I'm just having allergy issues. Either way, I'm dealing with phlegm and a cough.

Two Tonight

I have two drawings tonight, both in graphite, but very different. I suppose the style is similar, but the subjects are quite diverse. The first is a "copy" of a Renaissance painting (I can't remember which artist--I'm going to have to look it up, but not right now). I do find the hats of the Renaissance to be fascinating. Why would this man want to wear this hat? Does it serve any purpose or was he just very into fashion? He was maybe a metrosexual of his day and just liked to wear fancy hats and carry bags. Yeah, that's it...



And as for the rhino, I have now achieved my goals for the week on the drawing end of the scale. I still have to finish reading my book, but I'll do that tomorrow. This rhino is the brother of Hornelius Unicornus and is tentatively named Brutus. As you can see, he is a fan of rings. What you can't see in this picture is that he also has rings on his toes. That is just in my imagination, at this point.

I am most annoyed right now as it seems that someone is either smoking in the hall or has the door propped open while smoking and the fumes are very strong and it is making it difficult for me to breathe. Just go smoke in your damn apartment and stop polluting my air! I'm not even a major grump about smoking, but I like to be the one that controls whether or not someone is smoking in my space.

So, I really enjoyed the rain today. I think one of the problems that I've had with this spring is that there hasn't been much rain and therefore, it hasn't felt quite like spring. Hope everyone else had a good day.

On another note...