News From Home - via a whimsy friend

By Mike K-H

I haven't seen my wife Phyllis for quite a while. 

This is Keith McIntyre's effort at reassuring me that's she's well.

Keith's professional life encompassed plenty of serious activities, including forensic science and acting as an Expert Witness, but these days he puts a whimsy sense of humour to work in his role as a sculptor of flotsam. Through his web site Strandline-Scultpures he sells 'corporate art' intended for reception areas and foyers, along with less serious pieces which would stimulate lateral thinking equally well at home or in a boardroom.

Sometimes, he captures delicate, ephemeral moments such as this Red Admiral outside the window of his home. 

My grandmother, watching the look in my eyes whenever my current activity was getting boring, used to say: 'The Devil finds work for idle hands.' This is what happened when Keith got tired of what appears to be a disused telephone pole in his garden. He titled it 'Up & Over'. I'd love to do some candid camera and microphone work on passing locals and summer visitors....

Keith Kellett was digging through old images when he came across this one:

The McIntyre response?

"that one would have me scratching my head a bit to get it on my bike!
I see birds & beasts..........lots of work there....."

What can YOU see? A long-eared Nessie?

The day you stop exercising your imagination, you start growing old.

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