Give Me Dead Cicadas, Please!

It's that time of year again - the cicadas we have known and loved all summer are dropping like flies. Support your favorite insect taxidermist with the gift of their crunchy little bodies. No seriously, if you would give them to me if you find them I would really appreciate it. I know, yet another bizarre request from me...

The Camel Under the Sea

This is an old sketch I did in one of those faculty torture sessions they call meetings.

HIDDEN: Illustration Friday

HIDDEN: "The mimic octopus remains cleverly hidden."
This is a sneak-preview of my next book, P is for Pangolin, which will go to press this fall

LUSH: Illustration Friday

LUSH: "The water ouzel enjoys a lush riparian habitat."
This is a sneak-preview of my next book, P is for Pangolin, which will go to press this fall.

Weird Mushrooms

Found in Arlington, Tx

Oh My Gosh - A Double Rainbow!!

My mom just emailed this photo, made me kinda homesick for Animal House...

They've Been Working on The Railroad

A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul

The chicks have all flown the coop and Jeff is plugging the holes the swallows, nuthatch, flickers and woodpeckers inhabited in the walls of Animal House. To welcome them back in the spring, I built six birdhouses. Why build houses for the birds that peck holes in ours? One because if we just plug the holes they'll do it again, two because swallows eat mosquitoes and three because I like them! The swallows have entertained is all summer with their aerial antics. They even catch objects tossed them.

Railroad Coat Rack

When life hands You RR spikes, make a coat rack! My own idea, design and construction.

Modified Thrift Shop Art

Before...

After: The Isle of No Return!

Close up of the Frogfish Isle, complete with palm tree lure 

What do you think? Better with a mudskipper monster?

Lexi sent these thrift store seascapes for me to modify for dad's birthday. I added a mudskipperesque sea monster to one. To the other one, entitled the Isle of No Return, I added an oscellated frogfish Island, complete with a palm tree lure.