Dec2
Kammie’s Oddball Challenge: Seen on a Rear End
Category Archives: Challenge
Dec1
Wordless Wednesday: Rusty
Nov25
Kammie’s Oddball Challenge: Beware of Turkey
I visited a garden nursery a few weeks ago, and I was startled to see this sign:
Okay. It wasn’t until a while later that I saw this darling. I socially distanced him. (Her?)
Nov7
Sunday Trees: Elderly Mesquite Trunk
More Sunday Trees.
Nov3
Wordless Wednesday: Cascading Cat’s Claw Vine
Oct31
OctPoWriMo2021 Day 31 and Update
Today’s prompt is Goodbye, train.
train wreck low-speed train fading in the distance chugging off to points unknown taking away my last opportunity for love leaving me alone on the platform staring at the vacant tracks I thought that when he left I’d feel sadder though my heart registers loss it’s the loss of a dream more than the loss of him we had potential together but he said I was holding him back I guess we wanted different things no, not exactly I wanted to love him and he already loved him(self) no love left to send my way maybe he will find what he’s looking for what am I looking for why am I standing here our relationship was a train wreck
©ARHuelsenbeck
My intention for the month of October was to participate in two different challenges on alternating days: OctPoWriMo by writing a poem on odd-numbered days, and Octangling by drawing a zentangle design on the even-numbered days. I hoped I’d get 14 of each done.
I got mixed up and worked on the wrong challenge on some days, but I did manage to write 16 poems, and I drew 14 zentangle designs. I participated in one challenge or the other for 30 out of 31 days, probably my best October ever.
My most-liked poems this month were “Sonoran Desert, October” and “Retirement.” Have you read them yet?
The ones I liked the best were “It Was a Hospital Room,” “West Side Story,” and “disappointment and despair.”
And please, if you see anything you like on ARHtistic License, please click the “like” button. It makes my day.
Oct31
Sunday Trees: Fig
The legit Sunday Trees challenge is on hold. If you posted a Sunday Trees offering on your blog or social media, feel free to add a link in the comments below.
Oct30
Octangling2021 Day 30 and Update
This is actually tomorrow’s pattern, baleselation, a “tangelation” of the basic pattern bales by Maureen Stott, CZT. I made mine a little less fancy than hers (she fills in the blank areas with lines running perpendicular to the others), but I feel so satisfied with the laciness. In honor of Halloween, I used an orange gelly roll pen on a black tile:
My intention for the month of October was to participate in two different challenges on alternating days: OctPoWriMo by writing a poem on odd-numbered days, and Octangling by drawing a zentangle design on the even-numbered days. I hoped I’d get 14 of each done.
I got mixed up and worked on the wrong challenge on some days, but I did do 14 Octangling drawings. My favorite is Maryhill:
Mi2 got the most “likes” on ARHtistic License:
Torus got the most “likes” on my Instagram page:
I love challenges. Be sure to stop by tomorrow and see how I did with OctPoWriMo.
Oct29
OctPoWriMo2021 Day 29: Paris
Today’s prompt is Paris, and the form is rhopalic verse.
Bucket List I’ve never ever been to Paris, the city of lights and city of love; nor have I ever seen the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre. I’ve never strolled along the Seine, never sailed a toy boat in the Jardin des Tuileries, never prayed in Notre Dame cathedral. I can’t even speak French. But maybe someday I will have the time and the means and the opportunity to fly across the ocean and experience all the wonder Paris has to offer. It’s still on my bucket list.
©ARHuelsenbeck
Oct28
Octangling2021 Day 28
Today’s pattern is bitten by Carole Ohl. You may recognize it as the weaving pattern known as houndstooth:
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