It’s a June, Bug!

Welcome to June, the month that ushers in summer’s vibrance. I’m delighted to share another desktop wallpaper design, complete with June’s calendar. Please click to download a full size copy and add some sunshine to your cyber companion.

This month’s art is inspired by my favorite bug! No, it’s not a fat little, brown, hard-shelled “june bug” as we call them down here in the deep South. No, it’s not that crazy bumble bee with a “banjo buckled on its knee” I first shared in my Spring Junkspiration.  This Bug is much closer to home–home where my heart is. In fact, he sleeps in the room right next to mine–which is one of the rare times he’s actually stationary. My favorite “Bug” is the nickname for Squiggle I coined some months/years back [though I only have 2 1/2 years to choose from], and his love of life and magic markers inspired the theme for June’s wallpaper foray. Don’t ask me why “Bug” came to mind. It just happened. And, it stuck. It’s a special Mommy-word I share with Squig.

If you haven’t been formally introduced, Squiggle is my 2 1/2 year-old son, and subtlety is not in his vocabulary.  Admittedly, we can’t always completely understand his vocabulary, but we understand enough to know that subtlety isn’t part of it. As you can see from the wallpaper background “squiggles,” when construction paper and markers come together, no square centimeter is left out. And, it’s not some random concoction of lines. Squiggle always has a purpose.

When he created this impromptu art show at G-Mo & Paw-T’s house, he was very specific about how many marks were on each “work” in the catalog and had a specific location that Daddy should place each piece in the exhibit. Despite his meticulous tendencies, his exhilaration and love of life always shine through, whether in the constant motion of a single purple marker on “lellow” paper or the color explosion of emptying the box on a clean, white sheet.

Early summer tends to bring out that kind of carefree joy, before the heat becomes tiresome. It’s a time for freedom, for running barefoot, for running fast, for running–partly because of how long the days are. Since we have so much daylight left after the work and preschool days are done, we are reluctant to waste it. The Summer Solstice this month marks the year’s longest “day.” And, although “solstice” signifies the day when (according to my handy dictionary.com) the sun seems to “stand still,” I am hard-pressed to encourage Bug to do the same. But, such is the joy of summer.  What can I say? In answer to his perpetual question of “whass aaat?”… It’s a June, Bug! will have to suffice.