When Ewe Feel Blue

 Platinum Puzzles, 69 pieces. Another teaser-type puzzle, again very enjoyable. The frame pieces made this simpler but by no means very easy. 6/10 Stave scale

Dancing with the Stars

 Platinum Puzzles, 69 pieces. I really like the Stave version of this too--you know there's a starfish shape, but there are no guard rails/frame pieces so it takes until nearly the end of assembly to get the shape. Took many, many hours to assemble! 6/10 Stave scale

some hours later

Nico Clopp, Martigues

 Artifact, 302 pieces. Nice impressionistic colors. 3/5

I really like how the shape interacts with the image here

fisherman with very big pole

Puzzle/Doodle

 277 pieces total (267/10), Thom Spencer/Jigsaw Art. Spencer's cutting is wildly varied, and with a puzzle like this, it's all about finding the shapes because the colors are individual. This isn't even a four-color map puzzle--sometimes adjacent pieces have the same colors and sometimes not. Tremendous fun. 8/10 Stave scale.

Jim Tsinganos, Passion

 Mr. Bob, 651 pieces. Sturdy, relatively thick pieces, some basic whimsies. The charm comes from the letters spelling out PASSION, and then there's a fair amount of blue sky though there are a couple of things flying around in the sky on closer inspection that mean more variety than you might initially think. 3/5

Mr Bob interacting whimsy

Edward Hopper, Chop Suey

 Artifact, 346 pieces. Some nice touches--the lamp whimsy that actually is part of the edge is my favorite--in this somewhat gloomy Hopper painting. 3/5

The Blue Streak

 Jigsaw Art/Thom Spencer, 292 pieces.  Very difficult--the blue isn't completely consistent and there are no clues about how it interacts with the plainer wood, other than being roughly in a line. 6/10 Stave scale