Postcard magic: a touch of fantasy with my painting 'Kwakkulus the food expert'

Each postcard is a gateway to a magical world! One side (A5-size) features a high-quality print of my original painting, while the other includes a short story inspired by the book that I'm writing; the Travelers of the Four Seasons. Let your imagination wander as you explore this tiny piece of art and storytelling.

In Dutch, we read about the following scene:
A long-tailed forest turtle; the perfect example of an animal that manages to live over a hundred years by playing it safe. Walk slowly so you have enough time to see everything happening around you, study every tree-branch that is fallen, look for foot-tracks of predators and hide for at least an hour as soon as you've seen one... This particular forest turtle called Kwakkulus, is particularly knowledgeable about what food is edible and what is poinonous. 
Quite convenient, did the little leafmouse on the front-right realize a while back, if you want to know whether you can eat a certain mushroom or not. There's one major backside of seeking the council of Kwakkulus; his stories are dreadfully boring. He knows everything about what food can kill you, of make you nauseous, or give you a headache, or make you tired, etc.... And as soon as he starts explaining something, he'll won't shut up until he has said everything that comes to mind!