Cemetery Worker

"Cemetery Worker" - pen and ink on paper, 16 x 11.  W.I.P.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. - E.O. WILSON


And so it begins.

A new project with a loooooooooong lead time, but every good thing requires a first step.  This one demanded an ant.

I have a fondness for ants.  Partly due to E.O. Wilson's study of and appreciation for them, but also because, for most of my life, I have been the proverbial ant. 

Thinking ahead, planning and preparing for and working toward....something, always.

Cemetery Worker

And my ant-ness has provided many good and steady things over my lifetime.  But it has left me with a shortage of naps in the sunshine (or the rain) wandering about, goofing off and giddiness, daydreaming and meandering.  I wholeheartedly embrace the rebalancing of Lola.  More naps, please.

Now Wonder Mike says I've become waaaaaaaaay too grasshopper-y in my embracing of the opposite end of insect fableness.  And he reminds me there has not been a reader giveaway in a good long while.  So leave a comment below - what is your experience with ant-ness and/or grasshopper-ness?  One lucky reader (to be chosen by Wonder Mike, of course) will receive an original piece of art.  Yahoo!