Rain, rain, go away -

"Leighlund's Cairn - Another View"
stacked stone sculpture by Mick Mather

The introduction, "rain, rain, go away", is for Susupetal ... most of us who have the privilege to know her understand that she dislikes the coming of the Finnish Autumn, fraught with fog and gloom and rain. But I digress. We've had an extraordinarily wet, cool summer in this part of the world too. Lately, that fact has included a lot more rain - pushed north and east by the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico - that filled this little creek next to Leighlund's house. I took my camera over there yesterday to document the possible destruction of the piece but was rewarded with a perfectly brilliant, sunny day with our little cairn proudly standing its ground and diverting the stream. Next step will be to document the winds of autumn and the falling leaves that might just bury this little stand of stone.

Illustration Friday: Excess -

"Jamaica on Sunday"
digital collage by Mick Mather

In addition to being my contribution to this week's Illustration Friday - the theme is excess - the image is also something NEW from The Papers Series. It's a collage of some of the news items that appeared during hurricane season this year. As I was looking at it again I thought, what better sums up the idea of excess than the sight of your car floating down the street. Yup, excess wind, excess rain and excess destruction!