The show that I'm creating the book for has been postponed. It's given me a little room to breathe but I really haven't stopped working on it. For the last few months my world has been all about mushrooms and trees. These mushrooms are based on Stropharia (Geophila) Aeruginosa mushrooms that are blue and green. I made them pink and blue to make them a little more foreign. I missed a great photo opportunity with them yesterday. I was spray painting the mushroom caps and just as I finished a huge bumble bee landed in the middle of one and started exploring the whole cap. Usually when a bug lands on something I'm painting I get it to move off but since the book I'm working on is about bees I just sat and watched for a bit. It was very curious. In my head I imagined it was confused and thought it was a real one. I'm sure that was not it all. I rushed in to get the camera and looked outside before I went out again. When I glanced out the window, not only had the bee gone but the wind had picked up and was carrying away the mushroom caps. Oh well. Some things were meant to be experienced and not recorded. I feel that way a lot with trying to capture the wonders all around me. Sometimes I'm scrambling to capture moments in my sketchbook or with a camera and sometimes I put these things to the side and just let myself be there without any motives. Some moments become the secret playground for our imaginations and others are given to us to pass on. This one was a little bit of both.

The photo below is half of the mushrooms. The photo was taken with my ipad in low light so it's bit grainy.