Terror on the low seas

Ha! I think I beat Steven H.! He's going to do a Japanese umbrella painting so I'm, quickly, slipping in one more before he has his ready!

So! I was at the Tosho-gu Shrine in Nikko, Japan and came to find myself surrounded by hundreds of little tiny school children who were there on a field trip.

Suddenly it started pouring down rain and just as suddenly I found myself adrift, waist deep in a sea of little umbrellas stretching away on all sides of me!

Luckily I could see the five story Pagoda and, using it as a landmark, wade through the miles and miles of umbrellas to the Omotemon Gate and safety!

marker and soft pastel on 5" X 8" colored stock