The full moon rises above a palm tree island in the tropics somewhere. Although I do not know where this actually is. I suppose you can add the moon to some of my “typical” art elements, joining palm trees, islands, and Tikis. Surprisingly, there is not a Tiki in this art, although there was one in another recent piece, which once again also included the moon. I think that after drawing lots of blue skies with clouds, I started to get tired of that and instead switched to the moon and a night sky.

Continuing in the Posters series, here is a travel poster for Kaʻena Point State Park on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi. If this location looks a little familiar, the photo that the poster is based on was shared in a recent Adventures by Burnsland post. A few days after that post, I was looking for something to draw. I had loved the photo, so I decided to make a poster version of it, using the photo as a rough guide.

A Tiki enjoys an evening on the beach by moonlight, with the ocean waves behind him and the moon shadows in front of him. I had not drawn anything in a while, because I could not come up with something to draw. After waiting unsuccessfully for inspiration to strike, I started to think about what I could draw. I realized that I had not drawn a Tiki lately, so I decided that would be my subject.

The Blessings logo will unify all of the Burnsland website posts that fall under the Blessings 2025 theme. As with the Love One Another theme from 2024, once I figured out a theme, I wanted a logo to lead back to the main Blessings page to make everything easy to find. Bendiciones You may be wondering, “Why ‘bendiciones’?” But there is a reason for that. As you may recall, Laura and I went to Panama in 2024 with a church group.

After a busy but successful Christmas season, Santa Claus takes a vacation to get away from it all. For his getaway, Santa likes go to this tropical island. There are no elves asking him questions, no toys to review, no reindeer to feed. And no snow. Santa was so exhausted when he arrived that he did not even bother taking off his gloves. Of course, it will be a short vacation, because there is always Santa work to do.

The Burns Family Christmas Card has become a tradition for us, and we always try to do something unique and entertaining. See some of our past cards here. Each year, I ask Laura for her idea for our card. We then take that idea and refine it just a little, but this year’s idea did not take too much refining, because it was good right from the start. Due to all kinds of issues, such as getting a late start on our card and getting it to the printer later than usual, plus a delay in getting stamps, our cards were sent out a little later than usual this year, but they hopefully still arrived before Christmas, or maybe just after.

Here is the third of the Burnsland 2024 Christmas Trees. This one looks a little different once again, but there is nothing wrong with that. Once again, I was trying something different for the 2024 Christmas Trees. As with the previous tree, I wanted to do something that was not quite your normal Christmas Tree. This one has the shape of a traditional tree, and the ornaments and garland, but it is just a bit more artistic.

The second of the 2024 Christmas Trees is a palm tree on a tropical island. Because who says that a Christmas Tree has to be a certain type of tree? When I was trying to come up with something different for the second tree of the 2024 Christmas Trees, I wanted to do something a little different. All of the previous Christmas Trees, both from this year and 2023 have been somewhat traditional trees.

The first Christmas Tree for 2024 is a tree out in the snow all by itself. I am not sure who would decorate a tree outside away from everything like that, but someone did, bringing some Christmas cheer to the snowscape. You might remember last year’s 2023 Christmas Tree Series, so I decided to do a 2024 Christmas Tree Series, too. Although I am not sure anything can top last year’s Christmas Tree Blueprint.

A Tiki has borrowed a hat from a Pilgrim on a beautiful autumn day for the Thanksgiving season. This Tiki is thankful to the Pilgrim for loaning him his hat on this sunny day, so perhaps the Tiki should look into getting a hat of his own. However, he is not quite sure what style his hat should be, so he is checking out his options. And I am thankful for a Tiki return, since we have not seen any of them around here in a few months!