Welcome To Blues Travels

This is a children’s nursery rhyme….and for adults too. Use the scroll bar to the right to read the text.

First: a brief history

I wrote BunnyBee’s, HumbleBee’s and Flutterby’s in 1993. The story came to me as I watched a beautiful Butterfly on the ground mourning the loss of it’s mate, or so it seemed. This Butterfly sat there all day long by it’s dead companion, and at one point in the day as I checked on the two of them, the story came to me.

At the time, I thought this little nursery rhyme was sweet and wonderful. I thought kids would love it. I felt like it needed to be in book form. So, I began to seek out an illustrator.

After weeks of searching in vain for an artist, I happened to run into a guy on the downtown mall named Eric Binder. It was a chance encounter that would be a blessing in disguise.

The meeting with Eric was pure happenstance as I had come down to the mall that day to meet with a potential illustrator by another name. As I waited for my appointment I struck up a conversation with this fellow at a table next to mine who happened to be drawing. We shook hands and introduced ourselves. He told me his name was Eric Binder and our conversation continued from there. I told Eric why I was there and he mentioned to me that he was an artist, which was obvious from the beginning. However, he was not just any artist. He was a highly skilled illustrator who had done a lot of work for Disney! I just smiled and pulled out my story from my folder and said, “Have a look at this. Can you do something with it?” He smiled and said, “You bet!” Eric would go one to create the drawings you now see in this post. Under my artistic direction, with my artistic vision as his map and my story as his inspiration, Eric created the most beautiful drawings I could have ever imagine. I think they are beautiful.

Of course, at the time I knew I had something special, and intellectual law being what it is I knew it was important to protect my property, but i didn’t have the money to do it. I needed several thousand dollars to hire an attorney who could help me with a trademark, but I was unable to afford it. Seems to always be the story of my life. And as fate would have it, I just decided to leave it alone and leave it alone I did for the past 14 years.

Anyway, I have decided to let visitors to Blues Travels peer into my creative mind, such as it is, and see this children’s nursery rhyme along with the original art work simply for your enjoyment. I hope you like it.

I have created two separate posts, one using Flash and the other using Thumbnails for people who do not like Flash.

Enjoy.