Doug

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=58561

a4e4ka

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=58603

faithfool

The runner ups: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=57604 and http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=57373

The WINNER: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=58354

Congratulations coho for invoking the best memories from my childhood. I thought your usage of reds was the most striking and your picture just overall wonderful. Gracias.

Thanks everyone for participating. This has been a wonderful and eye-opening challenge. You've all been great!

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Congratulations coho. A superb monochrome.

Doug

Congrats Coho and thank you faithfool. It was an extremely exiting challenge. It got my mind moving in different ways. Never thought of the monochrome angle. Great choice!!!

coho

I am honored that you chose my picture faithfool, there were some really amazing ones. That monochromatic theme was really fun and got me looking at colors in a new way. Do I get to set a new challenge? I have a couple in mind, but am a bit distracted at the moment. Sleeping in my loft I awoke to a loud noise this morning. Thought it was my foster kittens up to something. Well I peered over the loft ladder and there was a 400lb. black bear at the bottom of the ladder casually looking around my living room. Needless to say I am on a bear proofing frenzy. One of the challenges I've been thinking of is emotions and states of mind of all sorts. Everthing from joy and sorrow to more subtle things like irony and cynicism, contentment, uncertainty, relief etc. wonderment, confusion, glee, humor. If anyone thinks that might be a good challenge help me set up a link because being the luddite I am , I'm not sure how to go about that. Thanks to anyone who can help out with that.

indigo

Congratulations coho! Boy, that's quite the story with the bear
in your living room!! I love wildlife but I'm not sure how I would
have reacted...I trust the kittens are OK and Herman Chang?!
Sounds like you live in a pretty interesting place.

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coho, click on Forum at the top of your screen. Then click on Community. Scroll to the bottom and click on Start New Topic. Give it a Subject (e.g., 'MUGDOTS XXXI -- Emotions'). Type a Comment in the box and click on Submit Topic.

I like the Emotions suggestion, by the way.

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Did you have a loft hatch to slam shut!!???

Doug

Coho: i believe we are on Mugdots XXVI this time around. It went from
XXIV to XXV then to XXX. Think thats the wrong sequence. Anyone else have input??

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I think you're right, Doug ... but it may get more confusing to fill in the numbers in between ... what do you think?

coho

The kittens were allright thank god ! tho the little manx is tooo sure of himself, he was calmly sitting on the back of a chair watching the bear, the other two were sensibly hiding under the couch. Alas Herman was nabbed by a bobcat in the middle of the afternoon, several months ago and I still miss him.

coho

And no I don't have a hatch to slam shut but I do have a fire hydrant sized can of bear spray and an accordian that I have chased bears with successfully several times. I've never used the spray but if you press as many buttons on an accordian as you can and madly squeeze in and out at the same time while yelling at a bear, A bear confronted by really bad accordian playing will always turn tail and run.

Chinky

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http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=58645

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Nice one, Chinky.

I think the badly played accordian would scare me off too, especially coming suddenly from above me. The scariest thing I ever see around here are big spiders ... 'make me shudder, even though they are harmless. It must be some inherited memory from way back in my ancestral stoneage days.

Dragon

I think Manx cats are inherently too darn bold. Mine would probably have tried to case the bear off if it happened to me. (The other 2 cats would have been securely under the bed or perhaps on top of my head)