We’ve been sweltering under an excessive heat warning here in the northeastern United States. I’m hunkered down in Brigantine, a New Jersey beach town where it’s supposed to be cooler than my home town, Philadelphia. However, with a heat index of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) even at the ocean’s edge, escaping “down the shore” has not helped. It’s hard to believe that on August 31st, I’ll be flying to London, carrying my winter coat because the last part of our trip will be in Iceland. I’ll pretend I don’t notice the strange looks I expect to receive in the Philly airport.
If you live in the United States, you’ve probably been involuntarily humming the musical theme for the NBC TV Olympics coverage. This week, the Zentangle Diva challenged us to produce a composition with an Olympics theme. I’m always hopeful that the Olympics will cause peace to break out in the world and my challenge composition reflects that, but for the first time, there was a refugee team at the Olympics, so clearly, peace remains elusive. Here’s what I came up with:
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Tangles used: Cadent, N’Zepple, Tercero, Printemps, Huggins, Abeko and Pokeleaf. (Tercero is a tangle deconstruction I introduced last year.)
I’m blaming it on the heat, but I was a few day’s late in realizing that I missed World Elephant Day on August 12th. I’ve been especially fond of elephants since visiting an elephant rescue and sanctuary in Thailand. You can read about our experience, with a bonus photo of me hand feeding a 77 year old elephant, here.
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Amusing the elephants at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand in 2014.
If anyone is still reading……in response to last week’s challenge, I used a tangle I invented made up. There seemed to be a minuscule amount of some interest in it which is all the encouragement I needed to come up with the step outs. You can check out Aurabead here.
