Lurkers

My brother #1 is an artist, and I have a number of his paintings hanging Chez Mima. I chose this one about 10 years ago from his overflow portfolio (of hundreds) which he stored under the spare bed. 

It depicts the lake in Finland upon which he and his wife have a summer cottage: a source of much of his artistic inspiration.

Every bedtime I sing a lullaby to Bean whose bed is positioned beneath the painting, and I look up it as I warble. So it was a couple of years ago I suddenly noticed the man with the hooked nose peeping out from behind a tree trunk, and a brown monkey with a white face nearby. Can you see them?

I have never asked my brother if they are intentional lurkers, but I suspect not. However today is the day, and I have sent him this photo and posed the question.

Today's Sensible 40 Minutes: trimming the dried foliage off the onions, then packing the onions into nets and hanging them from the rafters in the garage.

Thank you all so much for your messages of sympathy about yesterday's awful news. 

The extra is for IainatCreel. I told you it was here...