Sweet, blessed sleep! Yea verily, I got to sleep until the morning was almost gone today, and ohhhhh, how lovely it was indeed. Now this is vacation. A true holiday. Never mind the fun things we do, the glorious people we see, the magnificent scenery, it’s the sleep, Baby!
I don’t feel especially guilty about it, as you can tell. We once lived next door to a rooster, one of that breed who are supposed to be known as the royal emissaries of the dawn, but who deigned it his personal form of rule to choose when he would actually crow, preferably sometime in the early afternoon or perhaps around, no pun intended, the cocktail hour. I really admired him. I think that if I couldn’t choose when to be sleeping and when to be awake (even, astonishingly, productive at rare times) I would be a truly miserable character.
Instead, I get this great opportunity and I nab it gladly. I will go with my husband and complete an important business transaction with partners today; we’ll run errands, we’ll have dinner with longtime friends, we’ll come back to spend the night with my sister and her fur-bearing ‘family’. Seems like a useful enough day to me, especially if it culminates in a long night’s sleep before the next day. Hurray! Hurray!
Art-Colored Glasses 
My kind of vacation!
I *miss* sleep….
Oh, my darling, I can only imagine. Perhaps I should just shut up about my good fortune in getting to nap at all, let alone sleep in often and all of the other sleep-related luxuries of my spoiled life. It’s cruel to torture you with such tales. I apologize!!!
Nah, it’s better to know SOMEONE is getting to sleep! 😉
Ah, sleep! A commodity in short supply for me now days. S oglad you have an opportunity to enjoy that simple pleasure! 🙂
Aren’t I the lucky duck!
We loooooove roosters! Gorgeous!
The original shot on which this artwork was based came from a delightful afternoon spent at the state fair taking portraits of prizewinning poultry and other beautiful beasts. Sigh! 🙂
So gorgeous!
What a magnificent painting!
It’s all about having the outstanding model handy!
Yes, sleep is undeniably most pleasant.
Avian specimen looks to be a screen print depiction, most perfect…
He’s a heavily Photoshopped show rooster (photographed through now deleted cage bars at the State Fair), printed on canvas and then drawn over with colored pencils and ink. To be sure, he was incredibly handsome long before I took his portrait . . . .