<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Elephants on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/elephants/</link><description>Recent content in Elephants on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/elephants/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Mosaic</title><link>/posts/mosaic/</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/mosaic/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;[caption id=&amp;ldquo;attachment_280&amp;rdquo; align=&amp;ldquo;aligncenter&amp;rdquo; width=&amp;ldquo;584&amp;rdquo; caption=&amp;ldquo;Elephant Mosaic&amp;rdquo;]&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2012/Mosaic/i-2LDXwkn/0/L4ffvDbhn3GbdhbcXzDPBQctNV6SnFpG8TXgfZhcz/D/Elephant-silk-scarf-collage-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Elephant-silk-scarf-collage-1024x613.jpg" title="Elephant &amp;amp; silk scarf collage"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;[/caption]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The elephants in this collage and the background were done by me.  I don&amp;rsquo;t have any formal training in art and I don&amp;rsquo;t consider myself to be an artist in the traditional sense of the word.  Even before I had retired from my day job, I started to have an urge to create.  It came up just as subtly as was my desire to have a pet.  I followed these urges and have been fortunate to have been able to try different expressions of this creative urge.  Many people I am fortunate to know have always expressed themselves in artistic ways so I was somewhat lucky to have these kinds of friends to emulate. These feelings may have come from viewing the work of my friends.  Otherwise, it was a longing of my soul.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>