"A Bougainvillea Blossom..."

...stylized and "funkified" a bit...

and freshly plucked from the fantasy garden

blooming

deep inside my Muse's imagination.
Have a happy, healthy, and funky Blooming Tuesday!

"Half the interest of a garden

is the constant exercise of the imagination."

~Mrs. C.W. Earle,

Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897

"A Fantasy Flower..."

...Painted while feeling a bit frisky and playful a long while back.

She was then scanned, flipped using digital editor

and posted

for the first time today...

...all while waiting

for the energetic version of my artistic Muse to at long last reappear!

Have you seen her???

"Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests.

She must be lured in with the playful and gentle."

~Jill Badonsky

"I'm Wiped Out..."

...have a hoarse voice, scratchy throat,

and a dietary guilt complex

from indulging in way too many

Super Bowl

food bites and frantic moments yesterday.

Rooting on the

home team Arizona Cardinals Sunday

was a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows

for sure.

(We still love you guys...win or lose! You did us proud!)

Soooo...

my dear friends...my Cactus Monday post for today

features

my artistically decorated "Super Bowl Splint"..

all dressed up for the neighborhood party

posing before a little artificial (shhh...don't tell anyone)

succulent plant from my kitchen....

I attempted to sketch the scene...but was emotionally spent...

my artistic muse elsewhere "snoozing on the job".

(You know...

I have to keep telling myself that "it was just a game"

of millionaires... tossing about a pigskin ball...!!!

It was just a GAME!!! LOL!)

Happy Cactus Monday All!

Hope your personal muses are awake and energetic all day! :)

"Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson