Lisa Mertins’ Life Illustrated » photographs

Tiger panache

That’s the name of this Tim Burton style fig. You have to see it in all it’s glory because this photo doesn’t do it justice! Those insides are positively magenta. And the green and yellow stripes — YOWZA! Best part is they are as delicious as they are gorgeous. Growing right down the street at [...]

moon train

Can there be any place on earth with a lovelier full moon? Happy weekend from the hot, far west.  

oh, if only you could be here!

The smell of this cigar box is intoxicating. And the box holds these awesome wood letters! The combination sends me, and I bet if you loved cigarboxsmell and thingsmadeofwood, you’d love it too. I’ve been working on the website with Kirsten all dang day — getting ready for a big reveal (next post — and [...]

up to this lately

If this poem looks familiar, it’s the one I wrote a while back as I was sleeping. I know! How interesting to me yet tedious for others — hahaha. The art isn’t mine but the typesetting is. My very first letter pressed image! When I started printmaking about a year-and-a-half-ago, it was to learn how [...]

in the can

This is the year I’ve vowed not to let fruit rot on the ground. With eight mixed fruit and nut and six cherry trees, that’s a LOT of fruit to preserve. Add my neighbor’s old, twisty fig tree (and no one in that family who likes them) and a seller down the street with 20 [...]