The Difference Between A Country Boy And A City Boy!"

No Deposit, No Return?

 Good wet Wednesday, all bodies..

The other sunny and dry morning I sat outside on the patio at Giddy Up and had a great conversation with a "local favorite!" We touched on all sorts of nostalgia, but listening to his stories about how country the Village of Folsom was in the fifties, was a treat.

Somehow, we ended up talking about bahia grass, mowing the lawn on a tractor, bailing hay and... snakes. I told him about our one adventure with a cottonmouth...

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... and he told me how he and his buddies would capture all kinds of snakes, put them in a burlap sack and sell them to an animal farm off Highway 11.

"See now, I quipped, "that's the difference between a country boy and a city boy."

"Oh yeh? he replied.

"Yeh, a country boy supplements his allowance by collecting snakes and a city boy does the same collecting coke and beer bottles!"

First cup and then back to the grind...

Copyright 2021/ Ben Bensen III

Page Three from the Health Club...

Here's the last of the health club sketches. I like both of these for their graphic design and simple lines. I am always amazed how some poses are captured easily with a few well placed lines. Often, I draw emotionally and quickly when at the scene, but sometimes I see the subject a bit differently and I am not in a hurry to capture anything. I have to think before I draw instead.