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The Music Room: Fiction Friday

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The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Jan Fields

Photo copyright Jan Fields

The Music Room
Lawrence thought his arms were going to fall off; they were so achy from carrying his son around. He just had to put him down, even if for a few minutes. The crib was in the bedroom where his wife was sleeping, exhausted. He couldn’t go back in there.

Opening the top of the cabinet, Lawrence gently lowered his son into it. Slowly, softly, he picked out a few notes of Praeludium No. 1 on the spinet. His son’s cries diminished. The more Lawrence played, the more his son relaxed. By the end of the piece, the baby was asleep.
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To read other Friday Fictioneer stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.

Three Fruits Three Times

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Fruit is the first lesson for an online watercolor class, Sketching and Watercolor Journal Style, by Jane LaFazio. This is the first watercolor class I’ve taken as well as my first online class. (At least, no other online classes come to mind right now. I love taking classes, so I might be mis-remembering this detail.)

I like the colors best in the first one, but the pear is out of proportion. The pear size is better in the second one, but the lemon ended up a bit angular. The third one is pretty good, but I still like the colors in the first one best.

First effort. Pear too small.

First effort. Pear too small.

Second effort. Lemon too angular.

Second effort. Lemon too angular.

Third effort.

Third effort.

The subjects. Jalapenos are a fruit, botanically speaking.

The subjects. Jalapenos are a fruit, botanically speaking.

The lemon and pear are fake fruits; the jalapeno is real. As soon as I finished the third watercolor, I cut it up and added to a soup.