Corwin’s teacher is attempting to teach the class how to write compositions. She’s started them each with a journal in which they write short essays. For the first one, Corwin wrote about his favorite season, which turns out to be spring. He likes it because of
Parents were required to provide an illustration for the story. Because I draw worse than Corwin, I decided to fiddle with a couple of pictures of Corwin doing the previously listed activites and jazz them up with some of the “artistic” effects from my photographic software (the effects must be good if they’re “artistic”, right?). I liked how they turned out, but Corwin and Mom were a bit dubious. However, their only option was skipping the illustrations or doing it themselves so they gave in. Corwin reported that it turned out OK, so I don’t have to do it over this time at least.