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Don't Let the Pigeon Dance with the Stars!
Don't Let the Pigeon Write My Tax Refund!
Don't Let the Pigeon Blog!
Don't Let the Pigeon Drink Coffee!

Don't let the pigeon anywhere near the oval office

Don't let the pigeon into rehab

Don't let the pigeon host a talk show

don't let the pigeon host high tea for the queen

don't let the pigeon cook with Gordon Ramsay

don't let the pigeon fly to Mars

Don't let the pigeon raise your kid

Don't let the pigeon write a book.

Don't let the pigeon drive a forklift.

Don't let the pigeon become a Ghostbuster.

Don't let the pigeon become one of the undead.

(Because Pam made me, though I already own the app): Don't Let the Pigeon Raise the Dead!

Don't Let the Pigeon Eat Your Lunch!
Don't Let the Pigeon Flip the Bird!
Don't Let the Pigeon Fly Over Your Head!

Don't Let the Pigeon Use the Microwave!
Don't Let the Pigeon Learn the Bagpipes!
Don't Let the Pigeon Play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City!

Don't let the Pigeon Marry a Kardashian!

hmm, that one might be a bit too adult for this contest - LOL

We could have the Pigeon mix it up with another book character -

Don't Let the Pigeon make the school lunch (The Lunch Lady could co-star in this book)

Don't Let the Pigeon Take Bear's Hat (Bear from I want my Hat Back could costar)

I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with my brain that the first thing that came to my mind was:

Don't Let the Pigeon Huff Glue

but that's probably too adult for this contest (but hilarious). So instead:

Don't Let the Pigeon Give Root Canals
Don't Let the Pigeon Play With Scissors
Don't Let the Pigeon Plan a Roadtrip
Don't Let the Pigeon Have a Party

Don't let the Pigeon Occupy Mo Willems

The Pigeon wants to be a congressman

Don't eat the Pigeon for Thanksgiving

I don't have any new ideas, but "Don't Let the Pigeon Die Alone" made me laugh HARD. Thanks for that.

"May the odds be ever in Pegion's Favor"
The Hungry Pegion Games
Don't let the Pegion go to Penn State
Don't let the Pegion plan your wedding
Don't let the Pegion out on Black Friday
Don't let the Pegion go on Spring Break
Don't let the Pegion go to Vagas

Since the Pigeon has obviously reached celebrity status: Don't Let the Pigeon Write a Children's Book!

Um, the review that I am going to post next Electronic Thursday might be titled, "Don't Let the Pigeon Charge Seven Bucks for a Thin App."

But I'm on the fence about that - it's definitely a fun app for grownups. I love it when the pigeon tries to bribe me with a truckfull of Oxy-Contin!

Don't let the pigeon steal my boyfriend!
Don't let the pigeon accumulate massive student loans!
Don't let the pigeon wear sensible winter shoes!

Great titles, everyone! I'll be back with a winner tomorrow!

And YNL, I feel like I'd happily pay about $4 for it, but I just don't have enough app experience to have real comparisons.

Beautiful Rock Pigeon. It looks real. Well done.

What a lovely envelope. What a joy to find it in your old fashion mailbox.

Love the pigeon! I always enjoy seeing them in cities, all the color variations and the way they walk and fuss with each other. They act so human sometimes... ;D
Very charming!

XXOO~~♥
Anne

Much as I like the envelope, I was intrigued by your medium choices - acrylics and colored pencils. I've never mixed them together. I know you can guess what just went on my To-Do List.

Happy Christmas card writing,
Annie

You know that I LOVE this painting....and while I don't have the original (lucky Caroline)I do have a card....it is even lovlier in person!

Sending love to you, "SH", "Princess" and Bri..

♥ Robin ♥

What a beautiful illo! who knew that a pigeon could look so amazingly stunning! Great job! :D

Great work! Beautifully done.

now, if i say YES, oh sure i remember that, then that makes me like, reeeally old, right? which might be kind of cool as then i'd get to meet amelia ehrhart or marlene dietrich (she wanted to be left alone! even by pigeons!) hee, hee!

this is reallllly pretty, lollie! i love his colors and that it's on an envelope! "))

Just came across your blog. I love the concept of your illustration as well as the illustration itself. Well done!

-Barb

Lovely work as always.

I really like this one! Great design and use of colour, a beautiful carrier pigeon!

Your mail goes by air and mine goes by pony express! lol. I love this one.

So beautiful! Lucky Caroline!

Well I know that happened but no I do not remember being there when it happened! LOL Same with pony express! Glad Caroline is enjoying that particular piece of mail. I love your art on brown paper!

Well, it's a great drawing, but I think it was passenger pigeons that delivered the mail. People killed off all the carrier pigeons, methinks.... Well, nope, I looked it up, and you had it right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Pigeon

Wow Lolo! What a beautidul painting and what a lucky girl that Caroline is! Never seen a lovelier pigeon!

Beautiful and lucky Caroline! But who better to have this treasure? :D

great take on the prompt

Oh ....yay!! There's my Lolo pigeon!! I can cerainly vouch for how wonderful it is in real life - the colours of the feathers are truly beautiful!! I was so lucky to win this and enjoy it everyday in my studio! Lovely that it gets another airing this week! xx

I love pigeons (and their cousins, doves), and that one is beautiful. My baby sister is terrified by them.

lovely. hope your hand is ok after writing all those cards.

Heisann!

Wonderful bird/envelope illustration.
I hope to make one for the topic within this week......
I wish you a joyful Christmas, many hugs from Bjørg Nina in winterwonderland

That's a lovely painting! I am sitting here watching doves and cardinals battle it out at our birdfeeder, so seeing this post is appropriate! :)) Happy holidays! xox Pam

love the thought of pigeons delivering mail - wouldn't that be cool? Sorta like Owls delivering packages, and mail.

Holiday cards??? what's that!!

Lovely! Lucky Caroline! Happy Holidays!

Another lovely illustration, the colours are gorgeous!

Another lovely illustration, the colours are gorgeous!

lo, so sorry i'm late again! i love this, the beautiful blue colors and OH! on an envelope! i know this will be such a treasure to recieve.
I LOVE drawing on envelopes too, although its been some time since i did it. you are my inspiration dear. have a lovely day okay?

p.s. the prettiest present in a red bow arrived and is waiting under my tree
:) :) :) xxx

Mailart of the highest caliber, Laurel! :)

Simply beautiful! And your blog monochromatic banner is lovely- it makes winter seem so much more magical.

i had to look to see if i had commented already. how bad is that?!

lo, i've seen you mix these magical deep feathered colors and i am enthralled. keep doing what you do ms. missy.

happy happy holidays to us, lo.

♥
kj

beautiful piece Laurel
regards, Neil

Beautiful beautiful pigeon. I haven't started this topic yet, but this is inspiring me. I totally believe in real mail--physical letters on cards that people make themselves, written with real handwriting. I have files and files of letters/art my friends sent me back when I was in my early 20's, and I"m trying to keep that tradition alive by sending folks real letters. If I get out one a month, I feel like I'm doing good, even though back in "the day" I probably sent out several a week.

Heisann, julsann!

This is my Christmas greeting to you:

http://viltogvakkert.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-mail.html

Cute collage. I am always amazed to see cats and parrots in photos together. The cats around our neighborhood are deadly to birds. I used to love to listen to Red Barber on Fridays as I drove to work. He did a sports commentary on NPR. He always talked of other things like the Camillias blooming during winter. His first love was baseball.

This is super fantastic.

I was laughing at your husbands stop off. har har.

Too funny.

Good riddance.

xoxox

i love this!

honest to god, lo, it might be my very favorite. i love everything about it. don't you like it when i get this detailed? :)

i have to go look at it again.

i'll probably be back.

i love you too.

It makes me smile also. Wonderful collage.

Is that cat drooling? Nice collage and explanation of phrase. Also glad to see it's Wednesday. I couldnt remember. :)

Whata wonderful collage!
Just love it!
I started an e mail yesterday but still haven't fineished it I have been sleeping a lot and spending not so much time at the computer as usual....
Tonight I helped a friend with some computer problems and now I must go to bed.


Happy Animal Wednesday!
♥♥♥
>M<

This is so great - love it and the definition. HAW to you -

I do like this collage. I was first staring at it closely to see if you had indeed painted that cat and that bird and that chair, but I guess not. You could have, you are THAT good! But it's okay, it's a good collage! HAW

What a fun piece Lolo! I was intrigued by your explanation too!

This is very clever...interesting info to go along with it also...:)

Very eye catching. I wouldn't mess with that bird, kittie!

COO! COO!

So funny!Great colours and concept!Wonderful!

You nailed the header as usual. Exactly.

Foreboding waiting for the ball to drop.

Did I tell you that my lovely Mom is dying. Not this minute, but it is a struggle.

Love Renee xoox

Beautiful piece and love the story that goes with.
The concept of catbird (even though real) i s fantastic!.

Happy New Year and the best is on it's way!

What an awesome collage!!! I loved your acrylic painting with the lotus. Keep on pushing forward for renewing yourself, I know what you mean, hang in there though!

This is beautiful and a lovely interpretation of the theme...even though I have very negative feeling toward pigeons. I already followed my homing instinct back to my home state, and even though I haven't seen all the pieces of my life come together, at least I know I'm in the right location.

Gillian: nice to see a new face :)
I was wondering if someone would point out how much they dislike pigeons!
I have a soft spot for them because they're so discriminated against. When people put bird feeders out and shoo away certain varieties of birds, I liken it to racial profiling. Call me crazy, but that's how I feel.
I don't like having pigeons poop all over my car any more than the next person but I think they're beautiful in their own way. And yes, I even like having them stop by to visit ;)

That is a beautiful painting and a good representation of the theme. It is amazing the homing instinct in birds and animals. I live only 25 miles from where I grew up but I really feel something inside as I head up the road to the little town I grew up in and have feelings that are like none other. I haven't been there in a while and I have been thinking of it lately.

beautiful illo! well done!

What a wonderful illustration! I love the color, textures and post!

This is beautifully done!! And a great interpretation of instinct. That homing instinct fascinates me too. I love seeing the birds return from a long winter.

Put it in a glassine envelope on put a sticker on the envelope (address label sticker)

WOW! I love this! It is very well done and I need to come back and say some more about it. (I just wrote a series of poems about pigeons AND I have a thwarted homing instinct AND I just read Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome.)

Gorgeous bird! I love that "homing instinct" thing - mine is just to be in my own cozy home, whenever possible. Can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be.

The Fall that follows Triptych There's the pigeon poem--it started out as an ode to Pigeons, but morphed into soemthing really different--it's not really about pigeons. Maybe I should add something that is--I have some of those, too, but this is my newest one.

I've been transplanted to Detroit, but I have a powerful homing instinct toward upstate NY where I used to live.

I loved this post - and of course your illustration! I definitely feel a sense of home in certain places and not in others. In fact, your photos of the water below filled me with longing - home for me is near the ocean, and right now I am landlocked. I actually love pigeons. I love their iridescent feathers and the funny noises they make (even though when I lived in NYC, we called them the air force of the rats)> We have mourning doves here, which are related to pigeons. They nest all around our property and serenade us with their calls. Thank you for the nice thoughts your picture & post gave me!

I have pigeons at my feeder and I do NOT shoo them away.

Years ago, I did a WHOLE series of poems on pigeons and would read them at open mics and invariably, someone would complain and one woman get really angry. She went on about how dirty they are and called them flying rats etc. But she didn't change my mind.

(I have a pigeon for an icon picture on one of my other blogs.)

He's so beautiful. So soft and blue. We have many pigeons here in Missoula. They sun on the roofs, and then for no reason, they'll all take off and fly in an arc, just to land back on the roof again.

Maybe it's their way of exercising...we walk, they stretch their wings...

I love this Laurel!! (and sorry I missed your Raven one) The details in this are just amazing - great post too, I've always been fascinated with migration habits. They have a special event close by here for the Monarchs every year....

P.S. in answer to your question on my digi-art photography - Photoshop (I'm hoping to add Elements soon too)

I like their iridescence. Two of my favourite birds are the Little Spotted Dove and our native pigeon, the big Kereru.

i finally made it to your blog after several hours of a blogger temper tantrum! you've aced the metallic colors of this pigeon. you've got me thinking about home and homing, which is a non-art reason why i like your blog and you so much: you make me think!

:)

Great pigeons on the envelope - your lovely illustration & the cool postage stamp as well.

Oh no words for this one!!!!
So beautiful and yes amazing homing instict they have and such perseverance. Every year a pigeon will strand here completely exhausted, they try to drink from our pond. Mostly they hannnnng around 2 days and off they go again.
Which makes me worried, because I know some ugly stories about (mail) pigeons comming too late......
I feel connected with the pigeon, I get dropped all over the world and I always fly back :)
Home is important to me, I love to be home and here in Holland I don´tlike it when being away too much from home......
When on holiday we always return earlier than planned because we are homesick........

I love pigeons! We have 2 (Turkish)who come for food in our garden every day.
I painted pigeons in Soul´s mandala, green South African pigeons.
In the cities the pigeons have a bad name and I feel sorry for them, they can´t help it.....
Here where I live I see only healthy beautiful pigeons and they are not a plague.
All creatures have rights and deserve love and respect.
I love the reflection of their feathers and their eyes are just amazing......
You captured both so well!
have a nice Sunday!

what a healthy and vibrant looking bird. the homing instinct is very strong in all of us, i have had to quench mine as i can no longer return to live in south africa. i enjoy your philosophy and i liked marianne's comment too. have a good sunday dear heart, hugs and wfs.

Hi! I love the colours in this. Funny about homing instincts; I find I feel like I have past experiences of places I can't have lived in and I'm fascinated by what triggers these feelings. Man and the brain are wonderful!

No allegiances for me, wherever I lay my hat is my home. Set me on a path that leads over the next hill and I'll be happily on my way.

Did you ever read the book The Warm Place by Nancy Farmer. I think that's what it's called. There are some animals in it that talk about that....how they can tell which way is home, even from around the world. This is a really intriguing question, and it all takes place on the subconscious, I think. There are certain landscapes that, for me, feel like home, even if they are places I've never been. I could analyze it, I suppose, but it has to do with the trees, and the rocks, and even the quality of the air and light.

Sweet pigeon, and given her proper pose of dignity and beauty, by your hand Laurel.

If human instincts were as strong as the pigeon's, I suppose we would all be perfectly where we should be, guess that would make life too easy.

The address I think should be written on her beek, in teency weency letters.
Don't thank me, I'm glad I could help.

I think the irradesence of their feathers is so pretty.. not to mention their incredible survival instinct... Amazing creatures!

Home for me is where ever I hang my hat... as long as I have those I love...thats home!

I love this! When my husband and I first moved into the house we live in now, 7 years ago, I was visited every few weeks by a homing pigeon. He would come to my living room patio door and peck at it until he got my attention, then he'd fly up to our 2nd floor deck until I came out there. I learned to bring him some water and seed, he'd stay for a day and then be gone. Eventually we got to a point where he'd get on my hand, so I was able to read the numbers on his tag - I tried to figure out how to find his owners, where he was coming from etc but never did. He was so beautiful! He visited for a couple of summers, then stopped and I haven't seen him since, but I so enjoyed that welcome to this home, and your piece brings back those warm memories!
Thank you for your recent visit to my blog. I'm glad you found me too - because now I've found you :)
Karin

Love it, and I think I should win this one.

By the way Karin thinks we should have our cottage in South Carolina. I'm up for that. What say you?

xoxoxo

The pigeon is beautiful!
Yesterday we traveled from morning to night and I was so ready to come home, even though the day was fun, full of beauty to behold, and good food, and company and sights etc. Today I am happy to be at home, indoors (it's raining outside) and sew to my hearts content...only getting up every once in a while to come here to rest my hands, eyes, back from the sewing machine.
sure I'd love a chance to win the pretty pigeon paper.

Oh Yes! They're amazing postbird in ancient China!
Beautiful painting, I like how you paint his feathers!

Another beautifully illustrated envelope! Your pigeon is lovely - gentle looking and this one is slim and trim - boy can they get fat !! I've had a life of wandering, so my homing instinct is maybe a bit weak! However, I do look forward to finding the right spot when my husband retires in a few years to make our final nest!

Oh my goodness, what a totally sweet concept for an envelope! Brought to you by homing pigeon, and here's a love letter coming home to you. Aaaaah. Beautiful painting. Much too nice to cover with an address.

What beautiful glowing color in his feathers...excellent journaling as always! :)

You are too funny. Damn, to bad I know you wouldn't cheat for the world.

I knew you would love Karin and Lynne. And I know they would love you. I told them Linda Sue and Tessa should come too.

Read Karin's February 17th comments to see how we are doing.

How are the animals? Are you working with any really ill ones rights now. How was that older ladies (is it a cat).

Take care sweets.

xoxoxo

Love Renee

Wow! This is a real good post. Pigeon is a beautiful and clever bird, we have a lots of them in Malaysia too:)
I really love pigeons because they are the universal peace representative be it in US, China, Japan...just all over the world.
Yeah, the mail will arrive! Just so beautiful and zen to me:)

Thank you for stopping at my blog.
I like your illustrations and texts with a touch of good humour and a great artistic sense.

Beautifully done bird. The colors and background are wonderful.

What a great choice for instinct... I feel like it couldn't get better...
These creatures are so loyal and they definitely have no abandonment issues.

Also wonderful illustration!
Love how the colors work with the paper, that pale blue especially...

...and where did you find that stamp!
So together all of it - very grounding in a strange way... Lucky Brine Blank!

I really enjoyed this Lolo. Such a poignant post. Did you really have your mail delivered by a pigeon? :0

Well, I have a little of both, really. But, I tend to stay put. I love to explore new places. I'll have to ponder this a bit, so thank you :)

Love the bird theme we got going.

Have a terrific week, my friend!

well, i can't help inteferring: i think marianne should get the pigeon. maybe you could forget the drawing in this case and declare the drawing on its way to her.

this is really a request from the universe: it just seems like it's coming from me...

:)

I'm glad I stopped by to read this. It reminded me that I am where I'm supposed to be-even if I don't really know why.

I missed this last week - beautiful Pigeon!
Bill

I love those birds, but they seem a bit strange for me.... Always in groups, looking at you with their round little eye.... What are they thinking..... Invading planet Earth? NOOOOO, that they have already done... mmmm..... };-}
You've made a beautiful drawing Lolo! The colours are purrrrfect! :)

Great capture of the colors on this! It is such a perfectly strange choice!!! When do we see the hawk?!?! And again let me tell you how fortunate I feel to be getting your art!!!

Great illo and great question/advice. I want so badly to get back home to the west coast ... we've been trying for years and it just gets harder and harder.

I used to date a girl who had pigeon toes and i was happy when she went home.

another amazing envelope… your work stirs the soul… just look at all the sincere, crazy touching comments…

the saying goes home is where teh heart is… and I have never left my home town…

Gorgeous pigeon! I can almost see the feathers iridesce!

I like pigeons myself. I think their feathers are pretty and I love their endearingly, pudgy little bodies and I am enchanted by the cooing sounds they make... and the homing thing, how impressive is that?!

Oh, and their poop, nothing compared to seagull poop!

Another winner Lolo!

Oh, and to answer the question you put out there... I do feel the pull back to Ventura, or some coastal area. I feel so displaced living in the high desert, although it does have it's charms... punishing heat not being one of them!

We just got back from our vacation and I can tell you I was feeling that "homeing" instinct. I was tired and ready to return home. It is good to be here. Your envelope is gorgeous. I saw many pigeons while vactioning. A red-billed pigeon was a life bird for me.

another gem...

your art is really astounding!

seems crows are homing creatures... they rarely migrate...
but sometimes they just run away!
;)

Hi

I love logging on to see and hear the new things that Ava is doing.

Thanks
Love Mom