Josh V's Faves

This Humming bird and flower is a watercolor highlighted with ink.

Yep, it’s pumpkin season all right.

This is the lower left corner of a big painting I screwed up when I varnished it , but this part still looks ok ...

Lindsey's prompt: Elf

Super Nationals at the Gaylord—two rivers running through the lobby, actual boats gliding under glass ceilings, a nature center tucked between restaurants. Noise everywhere: kids, clocks, pawns and queens. Yet here, in the middle of it, a pause. A man leans back with the weight of waiting. A woman sits, at ease but still seeking. An empty chair remembers everyone who has rested there. In a place built to dazzle, what lingered with me was not the spectacle, but the silence. To draw is to honor the quiet within the clamor. thinking and seeing for better being — https://forming20.com/

Zoidberg: Everyone! Quick! I was reading about this man RFK Jr. who says that we have to stop all modern medical practices immediately. He says they're poisonous.... Amy: RFK Jr. was an unqualified political grifter who died in disgrace from preventable illnesses over a thousand years ago. All of his theories were discredited even while he was still alive. You'd have to be a complete moron to take him seriously. Leela: God, Dr. Zoidberg. Aren't you even a little ashamed at being such an idiot? Fry: Yeah, Zoidberg. Even I knew that. How embarrassing for you.

Like that Beatles song that Ringo sang on, but spookier…

“Change is inevitable. You either resist it—we know who those people are—or you go with it.” - Robert Redford (1936 - 2025).

I left this drawing behind when I moved but noticed it on a philosophy site; glad it was there.

Lindsey's prompt: Centaur

Three trunks rising from one root, steady and separate yet belonging. The little bush at their base reminds me that life gathers in layers—quiet companions at the feet of giants. A simple contour line holds it all, the way a moment holds both strength and tenderness.

Indeed, much bird bingo is being played here!

Not much in the way of atolls here, I went down a Laurel & Hardy flavoured rabbit hole and simply found a title I liked…