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Some pen sketches
I haven’t posted any of my pen drawings for quite awhile. So, here are a few from last year. Sunrise on the Halifax River in Florida. We were staying with our friends Patsy and Ken and I would get up quite early and sit on the porch drinking coffee watching the sun come up and…
Interesting plants
The other day when we were heading south to Ann Arbor we stopped at Point LaBarbe in Mackinac County. We were looking for some interesting late summer plants. And we actually found everything that we were looking for. Fen grass-of-parnassus on the left, lesser fringed gentian on the right. The mixed cobble and sand near…
What was in the garden last night
Our garden, which is mostly edible plants also attracts a great variety of insects, both during the day and at night. Tomato hornworm caterpillar that’s been parasitized and covered in small coccoons. It’s still alive and munching on tomato leaves. Female Chinese mantis that laid eggs in the kale. This non-native species has apparently fed…
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