The Painter on the Roof

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde

What a great truth! How is that for optimistic pessimism?

I did this illustration some time ago ... I may have been a mere teen.

And back to the present - I leave you with the news that The Great Blogbina will be on hiatus for a few days ... she'll be vacationing at some exotic Blog island, sipping a Blogberry coconut cocktail. Scratch that. She'll have a Blogberry blueberry slush.

And miles and miles away from her fun, I will be living vicariously through her ...

And so (for now at least), my sacrifice for IllustrationFriday.com's theme of "sacrifice" is that of another IF toon ...