“Bug Rap” Featuring L’ Wum & K-T-Did
December 5, 2018
Familiar things are comforting; that’s why little children like to hear the same stories over and over again. Lil’ Wum is actually the farmer’s friend, he helps to improve the soil and nurtures organisms and increases the amount of air and water that get into the soil and leaving behind castings that provide valuable fertilizer. A plant’s roots allow it to receive the nutrients that Lil’ Wum carries. What Lil’ Wum does not realize is that the bird flying above carries a seed that could become a great plant. Drawing by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
K-T-did: What’s up! Zit! Zit!
Lil’ Wum: Bu’d a buv
K-T-did: Yeh, Yeh… click
Dragonfly: Talk to me… Whush!
K-T-did: Lisp… lisp… zit! Click!
Dragonfly: Whush!
Bee: Buzz lisp… lisp… zit! Oh dang!
While the lil’ critters fretted, the “bud” dropped a seed that would grow tall.
Meanwhile, the “bud” carried a maritime plant seed that grew into a giant thistle on an island where it took root and was given the space to grow. Drawing by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Insect studies…
October 24, 2018
Celtic moth design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Insect sketches mounted on Japanese paper, by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Visual Afterthoughts… Lydia Maria Child
July 25, 2018
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) began her career almost two centuries ago, and some of her writing is dated, yet some resonates today in odd ways. She address the contradiction in American society as to whether to conserve of consume with her association of ideas. Child also offered this thought: The United States is a warning rather than en example to the world.” This odd group including a bird, bees, a squirrel, a whale, a wax doll, and a horse appeared in “Fanny’s Menagerie,” Rainbows for Children (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1847): 119-131. Design by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Still looking for that four-leaf clover…
March 16, 2018
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, one clover and one bee, and revery. The revery alone will do, if bees are few.” Words by Emily Dickenson, No. 1755, design with one four-leaf clover by Meredith Eliassen, 2018.
Type Casting… And Coming Attractions
May 10, 2017
A Celtic ant design by Meredith Eliassen, 2017.
An Ant will carry a leaf hundreds of miles to bring it to the anthill or the “group mind.” An Ant work for the good of the entire community. This ant (pictured above) was just rescued from a raging river by a dove that dropped a feather that he climb upon. The feather carried him to shore were he sits and contemplates the world.
Bees buzzing design by Meredith Eliassen, 2017.
Bees. We cannot say enough about bees, that bring the sweet honey of life… and sting only with provoked. Bees spread pollen from flower to flower and mix things up to keep things growing.
Little brown mouse design by Meredith Eliassen, 2017.
A Mouse must touch everything with his or her whiskers to know it, yet he or she can chew every little thing or idea to pieces. And oh, the Mouse must watch out for predators like birds, cats, and snakes. Life is not easy when you must watch closely, little brown mouse, for that piece of cheese may be sitting on trigger that will spring a deadly trap.
We take these small creatures for granted in our daily walks, but they will figure large in some of the coming stories on this page.
For my May10Boys.
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