A Child’s Gift

Dandelion Bouquet

“For you, Daddy!”, she said to me, dandelions in her hand…

“Thank you!”, I said, as I held them close, her face beamed oh so grand!

The gift, you see, is something more, a symbol of her love…

For this I stop and spare a thought, to thank the Lord above.

The dandelions in the photo are just that, a gift from my 3 year old daughter just yesterday. We were outside where I was working a bit on the play set in our backyard. I had placed them on the post top while working and could enjoy the gift simply by looking over.

I imagine just about anyone who has had small children has received similar such gifts from them. I hope they cherished them as much as I do!

Please take a moment and share a comment about a gift like this that you received once!

Have a great day and thanks for joining me!

Jim Sponseller – mindescapes.net – 2021

Artwork Endeavor

I have started a new endeavor to expand my digital art skills to include more realism into my artwork. I have shared many creations of earlier work on this site before, including those here below but they are squarely in the realm of cartoons. I would like to begin a series of Biblically inspired art and feel a more realistic style would be preferable.

I am currently working with Medibang Art on my Android tablet known more for manga type artwork so I may also find that it lacks some tools that lend more realism but figure it is mostly a lack of technique on my part.

Should be an exciting endeavor and I hope to share some images here along this journey! As mentioned earlier, here’s a gallery of some of my earlier works.

  • Flowering Imagination

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Jim Sponseller – mindescapes.net – 2021

Initial Morning Rays, A Petally Poem

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Initial light of the day reveals, this petal menagerie…

So varied and sweet,

these flowers look neat…

Here drinking the mornings rays.

Another set of snap dragons in our back garden. I really think these are beautiful with the range of variation in the petals. I tend to prefer that over solid color blooms most of the time.

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!

Jim Sponseller – mindescapes.net – 2021

Longing For Tomorrow

Golden Sky

Light spreads as lava, a fiery golden view…

Another day is ending, a day I spent with you…

Longing for tomorrow, so hard to be apart…

And though this day is cooling, just know you warm my heart…

Hoping for the future, when two can be as one…

Yet cherishing our journey, a journey long begun.

Jim Sponseller – mindescapes.net – 2021