Say Hello To My Little Friends

So beeswax is in the air, literally.  Guess I overheated the wax pot...it is pretty strong.  I was in the zone, painting and humming and forgot my mask.  Tsk, tsk.  So now chastise myself for not wearing proper protection...Think I should do the darling bees on a smaller scale.  or maybe a stylized version that suggests bees without the, uh, bee anatomy beeing correct. I have almost finished half of the quart of honey I brought home that fateful day with the beekeepers.  There is so much to do these days.  More bee stuff to come, just thought I would share an attempt. Busy little me.

I am officially starting to sweat this mural thing.  We have a walk through tomorrow and I have a bare-bones proposal drawn up to present to the group and maybe John A.  No names, please.  I think I am on track, especially having spoken to Cindy Chinn (her I can name) who is a super genius mural master.  I look forward to getting together with everybody, my friends and I have emptied my head just to make room for all their wonderful input.   Not that anyone will notice, since I am pretty light in that department right now.  

Chris and I had a conversation earlier about the likelihood of visitors coming to this planet that did not have some kind of hive mentality, or at least a group mind of sorts.  The whole bee thing, the success of  creatures that live in harmony with their environment and function cooperatively on a major scale, yeah.  I think we are too individually minded to pull off something interstellar without major casualties.  Unless we have a stargate.  Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game a while back (a long while) and addressed contact with an insectlike species.  Communication problems were just the beginning of the obstacles we would face.  Hey!  We can't even talk to members of our own mammal family!  Uncle Orson, a wonderful writer and interesting speaker, is one of my top 5 writers.  He leads you through a story and makes you ask yourself questions you did not know you were wondering about.  I love that.  He also writes an alternative America series, the  Prentice Alvin books.  I could read them all the time.  He and I share admiration for Zenna Henderson, author of the People  stories.  So many favorites! So many books! * Happy Dance*

Bee Good!