A quick compilation of some of the flowering plants i've learned this spring and a few of the cool colored foliage. (i'll come back in and label each this weekend!)
Sheltering in Place One story of many in the wake of the Sonoma County Wildfires. All of us here that have gone through this fire have our stories now. How did you find out? Whom do you know that lost a house? Are you safe? I want to preface this story by saying I am writing this for my friends and family. This fire was a life-altering experience, the two-minute version most people will be getting in person just doesn’t do it justice. Maybe something in it will help you or maybe you will just understand more about me in the reading of this story. Upon reflection, I realize Sonoma, CA, and Anacortes, WA my two hometowns have similar demographics and geographical limitations. While Fidalgo Island is surrounded by water, Sonoma is surrounded by steep mountains. So imagine all the water is slowly catching on fire dependent on the direction the wind is blowing. Then you can start to picture what our situation was here. We all tell ourselves, if something happened I am ...
This season and term have flown by! There have been many fun memories and lots of work that's been done over this short time. I've learned somewhere around two hundred trees in my plants class. Learned how to push and pull space in my art class as well as painting with charcoal (adding water to charcoal). The 12 principles of Japanese garden design. French in it's many uses. These are a few pictures to highlight some of the things i've been doing! Most recently to right before the last post. My friend from High School requested me to help him actualize an idea for his next tattoo. It's taken all term to finally get to this point, I also used this drawing as my art final which ment this version took 8 hours to create! This is the Bald Eagle version And the Golden Eagle version we'll see which he picks This was version 1 at the beggining of the term the finals are versions 4,5 and 6 The start of my final project i'm working on that'll be a miniature model ...
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