Harbor without an anchor.

I am attempting to draw a picture of a lighthouse embedded in a floating rock.  It's a lot harder than i thought it would be.  The rock wasn't bad, because I've been doodling all kinds of meteorite fragments lately, but the lighthouse is astonishingly elusive.  If I didn't need to make it obvious that it was in fact a lighthouse, I would bury the top of it in a cloud or something, because that's the part I can't seem to get right.  (Even with the help of the trusty Google Images.)  Even a very simplified version.  But the rock is coming along nicely. Im trying to decide what else to put in the sky.  Maybe some balloons or a lone melancholy person or a gingerbread house or something.   I always draw clouds, and as much as I like them, they seem more doodleish than drawing-worthy at the moment.

It just occurred to me that having a floating lighthouse is really pointless. I think I can turn this into a profound metaphor...

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Still sweep the spectres through the sky,
   Still scud the clouds before the storm,
Still naked in the howling night
   The red-eyed light-house lifts its form.
Without, the world is wild with rage,
   Unkenneled demons are abroad,
But with the father and the son
   Within, there is the peace of God.
(Fitz James O'Brien, from "Minot's Ledge" lighthouse poem)