Living in Season

We had a big windstorm today and these leaves ended up in the corner of the rectangular formal pond in the park across from where I work. Th...

I've spent years studying and writing about holidays and I thought I knew a lot about the reasons people celebrate: to experience the ti...

Found on the street and scanned on my scanner. Well, maybe it needs a bit more of brown. I like the decay and the brokenness.

You can pretty much bet that when I say I’m done with a subject (as I said in my last post that I was done with the topic of wild grasses), ...

The other day I was browsing a website I love for its vintage patterns, and I found a photograph of a dress made out of grass. The designer...

I love volunteers in the garden, those mystery plants that sprig up and only gradually reveal their character. I’ve got a magnificent mulle...

I thought I was done with the topic of flower art--see below for posts on flower dogs and flower carpets—when I found an article at Human F...

I've been championing the idea of a birthday flower, that is a flower that blossoms on your birthday. And here's the most recent pi...

I’m making progress on my grass identification project now that I’ve got a copy of Pojar’s Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast . For insta...

I wrote in my newsletter about how I wanted to learn to identify grasses--I always like to collect a bouquet of all the wild grasses growing...

Here they are two days later. I'll check again on my birthday.

Last year, I wrote about how the amaryllis belladoonna is the flower my mother associates with my upcoming birthday (September 4) because it...

A few months ago I was walking down Twelfth Street past the thrift store operated by an AIDs charity and noticed that the stone roses clust...

If you type “flower art” into a search engine, these are the pictures you get (if you don’t count pictures and cards made with dried flower...

Last Sunday, I spotted the most amazing work of art on my way to my local coffee shop. Someone had created elaborate designs with flowers ...

I was tagged by Lunaea and asked to share eight random things about me. Here they are. 1. My ancestress was a Welsh princess (or rather sh...

Because I'm most likely to be sitting with a pen in my hand in front of a blank page while at a coffee shop, my notebook is full of ske...

This year, because I wanted to practice drawing, I bought notebooks with blank pages, which has changed the way I write. All of my pages, ev...

Draw bamboos for ten years, Become a bamboo, Then forget all about bamboos when you are drawing Susuki I first learned about contour drawing...

The answer to the question is: I wish. During my high school years, while hanging out with the other nerdy girls (although we wouldn't h...