wind

It's autumn, and the wind-cloud has become strong and has blown the porcupine around. He cryes for help, and luckily his friend, the white rabbit, hears him. He calls for the giraffe, who comes very fast.

"Go away from my friends," the giraffe says. "We two are stronger than that cloud", the white rabbit says and hides himself between the giraffe's long legs.

women

These women are not ghosts. They only look like. I wish, I could see their faces, see them as those human beings, they are.

It's only the burca, where we only can se the eyes, I think is a bit scaring. Other veils can be very beautiful. I really respect the muslim woman's wish to wear veil - of course. I only want to see her face.


It's this photo of women from Yemen, that inspired me to the image above.

nice ghosts

Two ghosts are ready for Halloween. They both agree, that white is oldfashioned for ghosts. "Your green clothes matches your eyes - amazing!" the first ghost said. "And your blue is just the same as your blue eyes - it is so beautiful!"

The bat flew up in the sky and wondered where to get these clothes. "I think the green stars would be cool for me, " he thought.

ghost

Some weeks ago did a spider eat the wasp, who would sting the grassman. He knows it's dead, but once in a while he still sees it as a shadow. "He must be an evil wasp-ghost now," he says. "I feel sorry for the other ghosts if he will sting them..."

smitten

The grassman and his girlfriend love to look at the stars. Especially they love the Big Dipper.

"I wonder how the stars could place them just in that way, like a trolley. Maybee they had a picture to look at," the grassman said. "Yes, maybee," his girlfriend said.

"I'm glad, you are down here," he said. "Me too," she said. That is - he's calling her for his very own star.

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trouble

About once a day the wasp teases the spider - he flies through the web, it's not strong and sticky enough for him. Then the spider must spin his web again.

But one day enough was enough. The spider took some very, very strong glue, called "Karlssons Klister" - this he rubbed all over the web.

Then came the wasp. "Hello, are you ready to get a hole once more?", he cried. He flew through the web - he thought, but he got caught and couldn't do anything. The spider walked towards the wasp. "Now you're in BIG trouble,"he said, "I'm gonna eat my lunch now."

quiet

Sometimes the white rabbit is too speedy, and so it's necessary for him to slow down. Then he likes to go to the corn-field. Here's not quite quiet, but nearly - today he can only hear a gentle breeze in the corn and in the leaves of the tree.

"Wonderful," he thinks, "now I start my new, slowly life - and I can hear again."

But he couldn't hear everything - two autumn-butterflies played around, completely quiet.

phobia

The grassman has got a computer from his girlfriend at his birthday.

One day the computer-table should be used another place. Afterwards the grassman would put the leads in the right switches. But suddenly he got very scared - he cried: Snakes are coming!

His girlfriend came and saved him. She putted the leads in the switches and kissed him. He wondered why the snakes didn't bite her.

That's how the grassman got a phobia - he is afraid of leads.

change

Life changes for a water-butterfly: At first she is inside an egg, thinking world is nice and blue. In the egg she has her very own lunch. She's eating and eating - and she's growing. One day the shell cracks, and now she is a caterpillar.

"I didn't know, I was so long," she thought. Luckily there is some food for her. Life is green and wonderful.

One day she got very tired, at last she couldn't even eat. "That was my life," she thought and closed her eyes. Just before she holds at the leaf - she wouldn't fall down in the dirt. She was now a crysalis.

Time passes by. One sunny day her skin cracked. Surprised she saw she wasn't long anymore. She shakes a little - and what happens? She rises. The flaps behind can be moved, so she can fly. She flew up, up and away - to the waterstream. "I didn't know, the world is so big with so many colours," she thinks with joy. She is now a water-butterfly.

Down at the grass the white rabbit looked at the sky and saw her upthere. "I will fly too! I will!" he shouted and moved his ears forwards and backwards.

(I tell in a comment how my process with the image has been)

hope?

Nothing's left after the war: no houses, no road, no shops, no laughs, no cafes, no pidgeons, no houswives at shopping, no roadworkers, no unemployed on the bench, no bikes, no cars -

- and yet. Here, in the middle of nowhere, is a boy, transparent, sitting with a red ball. Will he give up, go home - if he has a home? Or will he try to play with his ball? As long as the children play, there is hope for a future.

(The ruins are from Berlin 1945 after WW2, I've drawed the boy.)

farm

The ladybug and the gentlemanbug are going to learn their 3 little kidbugs to milk their aphids. The ladybug-parents have learned it by the ants. "Adr!" says the one kidbug.

"Don't you want some food?" the father says. "Yes, but you shall give it to me," she says. "What will you do, when you are alone", asks the father. "I will never be alone - I'll be a family-ladybug," she says, "and I love you, dad!"

"OK, wait a minute, I'll come with some food," the father says.

best regards from Einstein

I have received this postcard today, and now I'm sending it to you all. Yes, many people see IllustrationFriday!

If you're writing your blog-adress in the comment, I'll pass on your regards :)

(I hope you will see it for what it is - just a joke.)

safe

The wasps are angry: "I'll get you! I'll sting you! Come out, you coward!" But the grass-man is safe, completely safe. Allthough he isn't happy at all. He wants to come out, and he miss his girlfriend. He is thinking: "Maybee it's better to be free and fight with the wasps than to be caught in this jail?"

run

The white rabbit would teach the porcupine to run. "You must learn to run for your life," he said. "But - I'll just curl up, " the porcupine said. "No, it's not OK," the rabbit said.

The rabbit said: "Just look at me - down with your nose and strech on your hind leg very hard, ready to run!" The porcupine tried - but ouch! His nose fellt to the dirt, and his hind legs hang in the air.

"Maybee you should curl up, " the rabbit said.

match

One day the grass-man and his girlfriend walked together. Suddenly he stopped, he would see, if their feet were well matched - they both agreed, that their feet couldn't match better than they did.

They were so engaged, that they didn't see the two ladybirds, allthough they were quite large for ladybirds to be. In fact, the one wasn't a ladybird, it was a gentlemanbird, and they matched well too.

play

The grass-man drawed a man at the stones with white crayon from the school, and then he played "jump-in-the-man".

His friends always wants him to start - then they can jump in his footprints. Maybee you remember, that when the grass-man goes at stones or at the ground without any plants, he lefts grass in his footprints?

clean

Today it's time for doing the laundry. It's summer, but allthough the sheep is feeling cold. It's the grass-man, who's doing the laundry, he loves it. "Why are you doing this against me?" the sheep cried.

opposites

The wasp and the turtle are real opposites.

A turtle can be very old, maybee that's why she is slow - why hurry? She'll probably arrive at time, if not today, then tomorrow. She are going to walk in the puddle, that's why she has her red boots on. Remember the porcupine? He stuck in the puddle, but the turtle loves water.

Then came the wasp flying very fast. The wasp is almost allways mad and busy. "Away, that's my food!" he cries, if he finds some people, who eat jam outdoor.

The turtle sang: "Slow down, you move too fast". The wasp turned back and cried: "It's none of your business!" and tried to sting the turtle at her shield. "It was not the most clever thing to do", the turtle said, while the wasp broke his spine.

The wasp flew very mad away, while the turtle, happy as ever, continued her way to the puddle.

sacrifice

All the other friends are at the beach, but they needed to clean the windows. Noone wanted to do it, and then they did "stone-scissors-paper", and the porcupine lost and had to sacrifice himself. "Never more say scissor" he repeated again and again.

And maybee he shouldn't say the same, "scissor" , EVERY time...