Calgary

In our part of the world - Laura the DivaCZT and I live in the same city - but further west, there has been some terrible flooding recently. Downtown Calgary, Alberta was essentially closed and deserted for a couple of days. A friend with whom I spent a weekend two years ago (giving a Zentangle workshop!) lives near High River; they're 'high and dry' but friends of theirs have probably lost their home. Another friend reported on family members: "They were rescued from their floodwater-encircled apartment building near downtown High River by a front-end loader and a dump truck." Recent clean-up and restart estimates are between five and eight billion dollars.

When I started reading the challenge I thought we were going to have a water theme, but in fact it's an open challenge. I was already thinking water, so I went with that. I used a pre-strung Zendala tile, blue pens and pencils, and tried to think of some water-related tangles. Seeing some of the photos recently, maybe I should have thought 'mud'.

Tangles: Aura, Beadlines, Black Pearlz, Bunzo, C-Scape,
Kandysnake, Lamar, Opus, Tipple,

Calgary and other parts of Alberta aren't the only places with lots of water. Perhaps the most severe are the monsoons in Uttarakhand (a northern Indian state); the rain is the heaviest in nearly 80 years. Besides the Ganges River, climate change is likely to worsen floods on the Nile and the Amazon rivers.