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Oh, so sweet and tender
is how I will remember
the day in late September
when you gave your heart to me.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
IF ... Dusty
©2011 Mardi Speth All Rights Reserved • Watercolor and Ink
A light sugar-coating would simply not do. This job required the EXTRA STRENGTH rose tint, used liberally. Many incantations and applications of fairy dust later, there was still no Rabbit. When the dust finally settled, the sweeping began. In the final tally, the only thing conjured was one big dust bunny.
Monday, January 17, 2011
IF ... Chicken
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Rabbit claimed they made a mean omelet, but I thought he was poking fun at my case of the jitters by suggesting we dine here. Well truly, if anyone knows their way around eggs, chocolate or otherwise, it would be he. Indeed, all was quite savory, with a few magical notes! Tales of valour and joy were exchanged well into the night. And after, in the wee hours of dark, we made a diagonal crossing ...
Monday, January 10, 2011
IF ... Deja-vu
... only this time, there came a flood of memories,
both sad and sweet, of prior crossings.
What!? You saw this before?
Your such a kidder.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
IF ... Winter
The woods behind the house hid a pond that was easy to traverse in the winter months. When the mousekin finally arrived, after an unusually long gestation (23 days!), we set off to...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
IF ... Mail
* * * * * YOU'VE GOT MAIL * * * * *
Wishing you all the joy and frivolity of the season.
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About the image ...
AN ORNAMENT, OF SORTS
The nomenclature unique to typography is rich in history, dating back to Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the letter matrix in the mid-1400s. • Molten metal, poured into the matrix, quickly hardens to produce a single unit of type, of any character, and is known as a sort. (Be sure to keep enough on hand, or you will be out of sorts) • Not all typefaces are about letters – some contain imagery that is used to embellish text. These decorative sorts are dubbed ornaments.
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