**Prompt:**

At the top of the illustration image, *"Happy Dig-Day, Uncle Iain — May You Catch Ancient Relics & Birthday Whoppers!"*

A surreal, richly detailed illustration in a whimsical, painterly style. Picture a white-haired man with a flowing beard — unmistakably Uncle Iain — perched in the middle of a gently winding, dreamlike river that shimmers with hues of turquoise and gold. He’s wearing waders and a safari hat decorated with miniature birthday candles, a fishing rod in one hand, but instead of fish, he's reeling in ancient artifacts — Roman coins, fossilized cupcakes, and tiny party hats shaped like trilobites.

Beneath the river’s surface, skeletal fish wear monocles and study stone tablets. On the riverbank, archaeological dig sites spring from picnic baskets — excavation tents made of birthday wrapping paper, brushes uncovering buried cake slices and scrolls that read “Party like it’s 1999 B.C.” A confused duck wearing an archaeologist’s vest peers at a clay pot full of jelly beans.

Floating overhead are surreal, Dali-esque balloons shaped like hourglasses, while nearby clouds swirl into giant question marks and dinosaur bones. In the distance, ancient stone ruins have been reconstructed into a festive gazebo draped in bunting, complete with birthday streamers and flaming torches that glow with candle flames.

The mood is dreamlike, quirky, and celebratory — a birthday fantasy mashup of fishing and time-traveling digs through layers of whimsical wonder.

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

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