Nothing is more of a threat to creativity than success. Not that I've ever known great success, but even hints of it can throw me off track. I lose that edginess that creativity requires. I start thinking more about how my art will be received than how it feels to make it. It happened last night.

I cannot tell a lie: I felt pretty darn good about yesterday's PaD image, and those feelings were confirmed by the very kind comments you folks made about it. I should have known I wasn't myself when I sat down to create another composite for today and found myself trying to copy, well, not copy exactly, but comparing my creative efforts with yesterday's...and nothing measured up. I went to bed last night feeling quite discouraged. But when I woke up this morning--very early, I might add--I was in a completely different place. The demon "success" was gone and I could play again. So that's what you see here--pure and simple FUN!

I beg of you, please don't be too nice in your comments today or I might get stuck again!