May from Irene - comments>blissful>mother nature

Irene tried a technique that she saw on handlettering.is.fun - which I have not gone to - yet. She layered markers on a black envelope and then after trying a few different things, found that a .7mm Posca paint pen worked best at letting the colors underneath show through the ink. The linen texture of the paper caused some very fine splatters - which didn't bother Irene - and they don't bother me. In fact, it makes me want to get out my ruling writer and do some of those bravura splatters. 

Her insert is the Bones style- dropping Dr Martin's iridescent peach into wet walnut ink.

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OK - the blissful ignorance. This is more of note to anyone who is a youngster and lives in Des Moines. I referenced the huge wilderness area in Des Moines that will stay a wilderness because it is a flood plain. In 1993, there was a huge flood that wiped out the city waterworks and the whole city (not the suburbs) shut down for a few weeks. It was a huge mess. And then there was another flood a few years later - less damage - but still a flood. The news reports would refer to these floods as *hundred years* floods - implying that there were experts who could predict such things.

Well - it's not polite to point out how short sighted and *blissfully ignorant* these people who claim to know what's going to happen are - but - it's bizarre what's been going on in the flood plain. There has been all kinds of building. Residential, entertainment, appropriate sized business. Not much industrial - but there has been a ton of development that looks rather inviting. The old downtown area has been revived. 

But it's still a flood plain. 

The whole thing still hinges on humans controlling the water that arrives via those two rivers. Somehow they think they can control Mother Nature. 

Good luck with that. 

Does anyone remember the commercial *It's not nice to fool Mother Nature*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI

Des Moines is not fooling Mother Nature -- Des Moines is taunting her.