Chess game on the deck

Wood board, hand-made in high school

Kept for all these years.

Art Prescription:  The Knight takes the board…

Index Card A Day Prompt: Chess

Rainy day closet

A stack of games, Backgammon

Strategy and luck.

Art Prescription:  Prompt for Index Card A Day: Backgammon.

Portrait of a soul

The warm, brown eyes of a horse

So reassuring.

Art Prescription:  Farm time…nothing like it.

Index card with colored pencil and pen and ink:

Freedom is safety

To walk in your neighborhood

And hear the birds sing.

Art Prescription:  I just want to say a big thank-you to our armed forces who keep us safe.

Index card with collage and pen and ink.

Television

“I Love Lucy.” Two best friends

Ethel and Lucy.

Art Prescription:  Sometimes friends last forever…

Index card with stamps and collage:

Every summer

Hot days lead to thunder storms

And a sweet release.

Art Prescription:  The pressure of a hot day builds. Thunder clouds build in the distance…and then it rains quenching the thirst of many gardens.

Index card collage with pen and ink:

Trivia, real life

Question? How attached are you

To authentic life.

Art Prescription: There is so much fake out there. Fake faces, fake bodies, fake personalities. Fake world if you watch television. Oh my god…there are so many people being fed FAKE!!!!!

Trivia:  When did plastic surgery make people happy?

A pink princess phone

Teenager waits for a call

From a boy, of-course!

Art Prescription:  These days I guess they wait for a text…gone are the pretty pink princess phones.

Index card with colored pencil and pen and ink:

Front porch, rocking chairs

A view of cows, dairyland

Mapleview Ice-Cream!!

Art Prescription:  Index Card A Day prompt and local!!!

Index card with collaged papers

Love sick Pinto Bean

Creates drama at the farm

Swoons over the fence!!

Art Prescription:  Ava, a new mare, came to the farm and Pinto Bean has fallen in love. He pines for her over the fence.

Index card with pen and ink: