Hold on to me, I say to my second... “I SOON reached a wood, and felt my chest expand with the pure air. It was so long since I beheld the full extent of the sky, that I seemed to look upon it for the first time. The moonlight was bright, and the night-breeze laden with a banquet of fresh odours that it had caught up about the fields and hedgerows. Endowed by nature with an acute sense of smell, nothing could be more delicious to a weary Hare than the fresh fragrance of grass and thyme. Each breath I inhaled filled me with the fond memories of my childhood, which passed into my dreams as I slept in the open air. Early next morning I was roused by the clang of steel. Two gentlemen were fighting with swords, and appeared to me determined to kill each other; however, when they were tired of fencing, they walked off quietly arm-in-arm. Other combatants followed, but not one fell, and no blood was spilt in these affairs of honour, after nights of gambling and debauchery. “Jou

Watership Down, Richard Adams. Illustrated by Joe Sutphin, adapted by James Sturn. Published by Ten Speed Graphic. The artwork in this is superior and right on the mark. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Watership-Down-The-Graphic-Novel/TPB-Part-1?id=232234 #1

A goat girl in a field of sunflowers~ from sketch~  To finished painting~ To video~ can't think of Kansas without this song!

"And man, O!", he cried in a kind of ectasy, "Am I no a bonny fighter?" February 23, 2013. https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2023/07/am-i-no-bonny-fighter.html