The Collage Obsession challenge for this week is the number thirteen. I thought of a hangman's noose because a school chum taught me how to tie one when I was about seventeen, and it traditionally has 13 coils in the knot.

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Here is something that might be called "Landscape With Candy," or "Constable With A Sweet Tooth." It's a scene that might be found on the slopes of the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

The challenge to depict "Peace" made me think of the Pax Romana, the peace by force of arms that the Roman Empire enforced for 250 years.  The motto, "Speak softly but carry a big stick" is a more modern description of the same theory.

This is my response to the week's challenge -- Sloth.  Here is a couple "sleeping in," when they should be up and doing.  Those hands may be sheltering them, or about to give them a rude awakening -- who knows?