I have a hydrangea bush that blooms about once every ten or fifteen years, and THIS IS THE YEAR! Behold, the tender flower:
And another, tinier flowering:
In honor of that hydrangea, today's chalk drawing is a mermaid holding a hydrangea:
And some close-ups...
It's thanks to stillwater_fx that I thought of making a shell crown--because of his sharing what people in the mer community make. The world really is full of cool people.