Canary III

Some pages from the sketchbook Freya came to join in as well.

Canary Day II

I don't know whether it was seeing Polly Cameron's book first thing in the morning, or just the mood I was in, but when I came to changing my bed sheets I sat for a while with my sketchbook and pondered the strange saying 'Having a Hairy Canary'. 

Here in Scotland this means 'flying into a rage', so I have started drawing hairy canaries and find that it is a very good way to stop myself having one.

Polly Cameron I

For some reason everything conspired to make yesterday a canary day. I rediscovered this book by Polly Cameron (1928-2000)  in the morning, which has strange rhymes and riddles ingeniously illustrated.
"When Polly Cameron overheard a 10-year-old ask "What's gray?" and a 5-year-old answer "A melted penguin,"  she decided to investigate this odd kind of humour and began collecting riddles for a book.  She enlisted the help of two young friends in the neighbourhood  Elizabeth Miles and Callie Angel, as her "editors."  They installed a "Joke Box" at the local Palisades Country Store, and received over three hundred riddles from neighbourhood children." source