Midweek Musings

 Hi everyone. Happy middle of the week to you.

Today I'd like to share an art journal page for Mia's Add A Photo challenge over at Art Journal Journey.

This slightly out of focus face was in a magazine, but I liked the fact it isn't 100% clear. I cut out a photo and made a background (on watercolor paper) using some scraps of green and tan paper. Then I used matte medium to glue down the face. Once that dried, I decided the background was too busy for the face, so I sponged a bit of white gesso around it. I then added the 2 scraps of ribbon that came off my Christmas gift from my daughter and used green paint to make some circles. When that all dried, I used some large sticker letters to make the word laugh.

I am also linking this post up to Rain's Art and Dinner Date. This week's theme is Aerial View.  Here are a few photos taken in 2013 when I went  on an immersion trip to Costa Rica. The trip was sponsored by my school, and it was a teacher version of the annual trip that some students go on during the school year.

 When we arrived, we flew into San Jose  and took a chartered bus down to Puerto Jimenez which is in the Osa Peninsula, home of the largest tropical rainforest in Central America. On our trip home we flew from Puerto Jimenez back to San Jose before catching a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina and then on to Boston.

Here's some photos from our flight to San Jose.

When we arrived in Charlotte there was a thunderstorm in progress and the storm created a plane back up. We had to wait on the tarmac for the plane to get its gate. When we got off the plane we literally had to dash through the airport to catch our final leg of our flight.  We were the last passengers to board on our Boston bound plane, and after spending a day in hot and humid and non-air conditioned Puerto Jimenez, sitting in the airport in San Jose as well as running through the Charlotte airport, we must have smelled just "divine". Not. I felt sorry for the passengers sitting around us.

And for the dinner date part of this post, let me share some dessert with you.

Costco had bananas at 3 pounds for $1.39, and 3 pounds is a whole lot of bananas. To use some I made a hummingbird cake, which is a spice cake with bananas, pineapple and pecans. And I frosted it with cream cheese frosting. Yummy! 

That's all for me. Thanks for visiting.