After spending a weeks pulling out decades of overgrown bamboo, I now have a blank canvas to do something with. I know I can't really plant anything yet as the bamboo will still need to be pulled out as the sprouts come back. It will take a long time to get it under control if ever. On the other side of the fence is the original bamboo field.
I would like to have a water feature but it would have to be solar since there is no power outlet close by but there isn't enough sunlight to run a panel. I'm thinking of maybe making a totem pole thingy. So every morning while I drink my coffee, I look at this bare patch of dirt hoping that today will be the day I find something to make it pretty.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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