National Geographic January 2014...

Fi and I have chosen to carve up the same issue of National Geographic this week...an interesting exercise!  You will find several pieces from her below, and here are the three I worked on this morning:

 Wombat for Dinner

(okay, so it isn't really a wombat, but sometimes one must sacrifice truth for humor...)

 Dragon

Visions

And finally, here is the cover of the magazine Fi and I are both using this week:

a craving for order

The dried paws are of European moles, collected in the Netherlands. In the center are fragments of butterfly wings.

All images from the January 2014 issue of National Geographic.

only connect

The title is from E. M. Forster, of course, from his novel Howard's End: "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer."

All the images are from the January 2014 issue of National Geographic.

Lung Fish

This collage , like all from this week by me, will come from this rather battered book called "The World Of Wonder" - 500+   pages of delight!

Men at work

 

And this is the book I used:

Wheel of Chance

I'm really in the mood to push myself today-- this ad I sliced up and wove back together and the words were too good to toss so I added a collage poem.  

Street Dance in Budapest

 

And this is the book I dissected: