Today is National Gardening Day! So, I am going to combine my love for gardening with my love for native plants and pollinators, especially bumblebees, mason bees, leaf cutter bees, sweat bees, monarch butterflies, black swallowtail butterflies, and red admiral butterflies. Below are two drawings of plants that attract pollinators. These two plants will be […]
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Getting ready for the gardening season is all about anticipation and excitement. It’s about hope and happiness. It’s very life affirming, which I need right now, considering the ongoing wars and other acts of violence perpetrated both by governments and by private individuals. It’s hard to retain hope in the face of these terrible events.
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Here are some pictures of sunsets that I’ve taken in Grand Island and in Florida. I love to see the colors as day turns to night.
Today’s prompt from the Ultimate Blogging Challenge was to write about delicious desserts. Over the years, I’ve had to completely change up what desserts I could enjoy. I used to eat all sorts of cakes and cookies gleefully. My mom was a terrific baker and she made the most wonderful cakes, including her chocolate layer
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Today, there was an open house at Orange Poppy Art Studio. So, I decided to go, despite the fact that it would probably rain. When I arrived, I saw that my sister Diane was there and was busily painting a wooden box in a variety of colors. I found a wooden egg, and I started
Inktober 52 is an art project that provides weekly prompts. I love to have prompts because it gives me the chance to interpret a concept. When I get blocked, it’s because I have no idea of what I want to draw. With a prompt, I can simply focus on how I want to interpret that
It’s #WordlessWednesday, so how about some pictures of animals and birds? When I’m out on walks, I really enjoy taking photographs of critters, so… here you go!
Today, I am starting a series of drawings of native plants in Western New York. My goal is to create a painting of native plants. These are plants that are likely to attract pollinators, especially bees and butterflies. Currently, here, the rusty patched bumblebee (bombus affinis) is on the endangered species list. That bee hasn’t
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Maybe about a year and a half ago, I was given some little skeins of yarn. It was the most wonderful yarn: very light and very colorful. I immediately became enamored of that yarn and I decided to create an afghan that was a rainbow of color. I’ve been thinking about changing the way that
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