This is my latest commission from a young family which will be placed in a book as a gift for Father's Day.  Apparently this dad's favorite place to golf is near a beach…any beach.  I think he must have sunburned his nose on this occasion!!

After last years trip to Thailand with her sister followed by her third trip to Brazil, Lauren needed to replenish her cash reserves, and decided to renew her ties up on top of Mt. Wilson working at the Cosmic Cafe on weekends.  They are allowing her to use a little cottage at no charge whilst gainfully employed, but it had not been occupied for some time.  In desperate need of a deep cleaning, I went with her on two occasions to sweep, scrub, swab, and sanitize the place, and she was able to purchase some carpet seconds to lay down and help make the place her little home away from home.

In need of reliable, but fairly inexpensive transportation with good gas mileage, she has been thinking about buying a motorcycle to get up and down the mountainside, so that made it easy coming up with the idea for this years birthday card.  Since the mountains provide the occasional bear visitation, this cartoony and happy element was an easy add in with the bike.  Hopefully this doesn't give her ideas about how to drive a motorcycle!!!  ;-)