Favourite Illustrator question: Where do you get your ideas?

Where do the ideas come from, you ask?

In many cases, I deliberately lose myself in remembering a day from decades ago.  Summers, especially, provide pockets of memory that are fresh whenever I visit.   I wonder if this is because, as a child, I had a lot of time where I was free to occupy myself however I chose.

Often I chose to get myself as close to the water's surface as I could.  It was a whole other world there, under the surface.