I’ve been wondering if the phrase “Red Herring” comes from today’s rhyme, “The Man in the Wilderness Asked Me”, or if it goes even farther back. Personally I had always thought it was a needle in the haystack kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well today’s rhyme, “Magpie, Magpie, Chatter and Flee,” was easy just draw a magpie flying and bobbing it’s tail, with no narrative at all. I was tempted to add a child watching them, but then why complicate things. So in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was worried that I was beginning to show signs of fatigue based on what I thought of the last couple of pictures but happily after today’s rhyme, There Were Three Cooks of Colenbrook, I feel much better! My only[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well… in my defense I thought my idea for how to do today’s rhyme, “Who killed Cock Robin?” was a good one when I started… The problem this was the first long story with a narrative I’ve had to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, In An Oak There Lived an Owl, should have been much easier. “Just draw a freaking owl” you say. Well, yes but even there I find myself falling back on pedantry. What kind of owl? I went through a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, “Send Me a Ribbon” was another one of those ones that was really easy to conceive, and because it was that easy I dragged my feet for over an hour. I’ve been avoiding most of the poems about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a rough start with today’s challenge, pulling a couple of incoherent almanac rhymes before I got to “Here’s a Health Unto Our Master” . I actually stumbled over it a couple of days ago but being off my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhyme ” The Old Man in the Velvet Coat” for me hits the land of Values Dissonance again. The poem doesn’t say anything about whether the “maid” (don’t know if that means girl or servant in the context, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, “A Robin and a Robin’s Son” was one I just couldn’t resist. The possibilities just started popping up as soon as I read the first line. The only challenge was making sure the tiny little robins were visible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this rhyme, “It’s Once I Courted As Pretty a Lass”, I was afraid I was dealing with one of the cliche’s of this collection, a gentleman gone a wooing… that is until I got to the last verse and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
