April Antagonists - Characters in Costume Reveal

This month I participated in the wonderful Characters in Costume Challenge at Gillian Adams' wonderful blog. This month's challenge was to dress up as or draw a picture of a villain, preferably from one of your stories. I chose to draw Interitus, the main villain for my WIP Project Awaken: Fully Alive.

My apologies for the poor photo quality. And the unfinished state of the drawing.
Interitus was once the most beautiful of all creatures, the best of the Shining Ones, the jewel of God's creation. He was named Filius Aurorae, the Son of the Morning. But he became proud, and desired to become like God, to be God. He waited, sowing the seeds of deception in the hearts of his brothers for millennium. Finally, he rebelled. He and his legions, a full third of the Shining Ones, brought discord and fear, anger and war to the Spirit Realm. They became the Night Legions, and he became Interitus, the Deceiver.
They were hurled from the heavens, sentenced to eternal separation from the presence of God. In his bitterness and anger, and hoping to find another way to wrest the Existence from God, Interitus poisoned the Basin, home of the humans. He blinded them and led them astray, destroying the link between their world and his.
Be sure to stop by the other participating sites!

In the Lamb,

~Maria

4/15/2013 - for lack of a better title.

Yikes, it's been a long time. Blogging kind of fell of the bottom of my to-do list.

Oopthie.

Anyway, I have been spending a great deal of time over at Jeff Gerke's/Jefferson Scott's engaging website Where the Map Ends. He is a Christian multi-published author who loves Christian speculative fiction, which happens to be my favorite genre, also. I warn you, he is not a conservative Christian, but I have not found anything inappropriate. He does have links to non-Christian websites, which I have not explored, so have caution.

The other thing I have been busy with is my photography. Here are my favorites from the last few months:

The bronze eagle in the hall of the Academy of Arts building.

An experiment in shallow depth-of-field with the Azaleas outside our gate.

Betcha can't guess what this is : ) Okay, I'll tell you - it's a stump.

Grass. In the wind.

Killdeer eggs. I was zoomed in all the way to get this shot.

Strange flowers on a tree at dawn.

Dew on the grass at dawn.

Chicken-nugget bats! No, this picture isn't that great, but I loved those bats. They really were the size of chicken nuggets - with wings.

And there you have it, folks!

Ciao,

~ Maria