I found a butterfly wing...

[msfledermaus]

...on my way to work. It looks a little mangled, but still beautiful. (I think it's a painted lady wing.) Coincidentally, I've been working on a painting in those colors, and it's *almost* finished. Almost...it has room for a butterfly wing, I think.

...This morning as I was leaving home, I could hear some smokey sax music coming out of one of the other apartments. Made my day feel very, very Film Noir for a moment....
...*Smokey sax riff* I was leaving for work on a sweltery August day. I had a backpack full of fairy dolls and a Shecky the Monkey King comic book. I looked at my reflection in the art-deco mirriors...black, and a little red. Black like my boss's disposition if I don't get myself to work on time...I passed the usual crew of shady characters...squirrels and mugger geese, waiting for that split second of inattention to put the drop on unsuspecting travellers. But I was wise to them. I snuck by while they were swarming on an inoffensive old lady who didn't watch her croissant close enough...

MsEff...to be continued...