At the top of the illustration image: *"Happy Birthday Uncle Iain — You've Hooked the Fossil of Fun!"*

**Prompt for Image (Surreal Illustration Style):**

A surreal river meanders through an open archaeological dig site, its shimmering water gleaming with fragments of ancient pottery and glinting dinosaur bones. Perched calmly on a half-buried sphinx skull by the riverbank, a white-haired man with a majestic beard (Uncle Iain) sits with serene focus, fishing. But instead of fish, his fishing line has caught a golden trilobite, wriggling mid-air with a birthday candle on its back.

Nearby, jellyfish wearing Victorian spectacles drift lazily above the water, and tree roots curl into the shapes of Roman amphorae. The clouds overhead swirl into hieroglyphs, and a giant hourglass, half-submerged, ticks backwards as time flows from sky to soil. Scattered beside Uncle Iain are layers of unearthed birthday hats, all dusted in ancient sand, and an old boot inexplicably made of cake. One tiny archaeologist in a hardhat enthusiastically points at a bone that’s actually a giant birthday candle.

Colorful, whimsical, with soft detailed brush strokes, the entire scene blends birthday cheer, ancient mysteries, and absurd magic in true surrealist fashion.

Generated with these themes: White haired man with a beard Fishing river archaeology.

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