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When the prompt reminds you of something else

July 14, 2021

A loose connection, but it works

Loch Ness

In and around the lake

Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there…

Along the drifting cloud 

The eagle searching down on the land…

I’ll be the roundabout 

Lead singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe of the band Yes wrote this song near the end of a tour when they were traveling in Scotland. They were in the back of a van…when the song came together. Awed by the scenery, lyrics like “mountains come out of the sky…” were written.

Anderson says “Roundabout” is a “happy song” and describes it as a “Scottish jig.”*

Today’s prompt initially had me on track to draw the concrete roadway they call a roundabout but I couldn’t figure how to accurately portray an extremely frightened driver navigating through a morass of vehicles swerving and changing lanes. In a circle.

Too much work. Then I heard a song from the soundtrack of my youth echo through my mind. Yes. Literally. That will do. When I learned the song had been born around Loch Ness in Scotland, I imagined what they may have seen as they drove the countryside, creating their magic.

A watercolor landscape with some Micron pen strokes happened for today’s #roundabout prompt. 44/61

*from the Songfacts website.

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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