Doesn't this pomegranate just glow? I dropped off a calendar at a friend's house in Petaluma yesterday morning. There in her yard was a whole shrub of them. I chose…
You'll notice that I'm differentiating the alstroemeria parts — what I used to call petals, the larger ones around the middle of this mandala, are actually sepals. The smaller striped ones…
Social media mess yesterday, eh? Where else can we go to connect? I realized yesterday that FB and IG are where most people view them. I have this bIog on my…
Flying on angel wings, angel wing begonias that is. There are a few different types of begonias, these being cane begonias. They're named that because the stems look like bamboo…
You have to make do with what you have, right? Here's a story that my husband found as we were cleaning up files. Itzak Perlman, the renowned violinist, was playing in NYC. He…
Fibonacci refers to patterns of numbers in nature, and were first described by the mathematician Leonardo of Pisa. You can see them in the arrangement of stems on a branch, on…
How does one prepare to move things over to a new computer? My old iMac is groaningly slow. Not sure if that's a word, but it's how it makes me feel — I…
It's hot and smoky. This time last year we were evacuated to Oakland, to Elmwood. I made mandalas there with a new palette of botanical species. It was super smoky…
This August mandala is summer, with only three plants used in the design, and mornings are foggy, perfect walking weather. Sunflower, alstroemeria petals, rosehips Went up Sky Trail again this…
Dahlia, breath of heaven leaves, Japanese anemone, dahlia petals I had a "drinking dream" the other night, though this time it was a "sugar dream". My drawing teacher and some other indistinct…