Let’s switch for a minute to the Southwest. My sister sent this organic sculptural ensemble from Arizona. We have always referred to the individual piece as Cat’s claw. However, when I googled the plant name today, I couldn’t find any images that matched the dried fruit(?). Everything referred to the thorns on the Cat Claw […]
Category Archives: Wildflowers
A Sweetbay Celebration
A few Saturday’s ago, I wandered down the tree line in back of the house to the multi-trunked Sweetbay, Magnolia virginiana L., in hopes that there were still fresh blooms to paint. I had my watercolor sketchbook, travel set of holbein watercolors and my NIJI waterbrush. No campstool. No pencil. I just wanted to paint! […]
Beard-tongue or ?
For the last couple of weeks this wonderful plant has been blooming along our roadsides. Always in large groups, it’s such a pretty blur of lavender blue to see when driving. The problem is stopping to pick a sample as there are four lanes of 50 – 60 mph traffic! Finally, I discovered some on […]
Sunday Walk
Rob and I took advantage of the glorious day and took the golf cart up to the golf course. He chose to hit golf balls at the range, I took a walk along the boardwalk trail with journal, camera and bins in tote. My quest was to draw the Highbush Blueberry I’d seen when walking […]
Dragonfly!
Spring is popping all over the place 🙂 Today’s dog walk on and around the boardwalk yielded lots of sights. In just the last couple of days, a lot more tree species are starting to pop. The bare deciduous landscape is now dotted with splashes of bright yellow green, grass green, mineral green, pink and […]
Rewind to October
Commission jobs are still rolling in and taking most of my time but, I finally finished this journal page from October and had to share 🙂 Rob and I traveled to Columbia to pick up my painting that didn’t sell at the State Fair. It was a beautiful sunny day, and while Rob drove, I […]
