Salmon on the Brain

This is a dangerous thing to do: research ideas for Every Inchie Monday. I've been starting the brainstorming on Sundays so I have ideas brewing before the actual Monday challenge. Sooo...the word of the day was "salmon." My first thought was FOOD (funny, that!), processing the thought that we're all supposed to eat three servings a WEEK for heart health. Like THAT is going to happen!!

I picked up the September issue of Woman's Day magazine to see what their dinner meal calendar had for salmon entrees, and there was only one for the whole month, a recipe for salmon burgers.
Fair enough, canned salmon is ALMOST affordable, but I'm still not going to cook salmon this week. What I'm going to do with that and a slew of other food images from the magazine is to make a collage for my brother and his wife, a chef, as a Christmas prezzie. But not today.

Then, I Googled "salmon" to see what I might gather there. There were the fishies, but there was also a section on the color "salmon," that peachy-pink color. I clicked on that section and I came across photos of roses. My forever favorites are named, "Sonia," a true all-over salmon colored rose, but I could not find very good images of those, so I looked for flowers that resembled Sonias. I had two ideas in mind from there--either pick up paint chips at Home Depot to collage (which did not happen, but another idea I need to revisit) or tangle a line drawing of a rose, which I've seen elsewhere to amazing effect.

 

 

Which is NOT what happened here. My attempt looked more like a Peter Max drawing, so I'm calling this challenge done and WAY off base. This is what my brain looks like on "salmon." YIKES!

Thanks for visiting this bizarre travel through salmon and make sure to see all the beautiful work that the other participants are doing at EIM. I am grateful for the opportunity to challenge the grey matter.
Have a brilliant, salmon-colored day!