The one on top is my restored Illustrated History circa 1930, bought at an estate sale and a test run for what I’ll do to revamp the leviathan on the bottom. That gorgeous dictionary has been in my family since the 20s and it’s one of the reasons I feel almost obligated to use words [...]
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 [...]
Here’s what I did to scrape the tech off of me…learned Saturday to make three books in one day with Wendy Poma at UCR. I know I’m not the only one out there that gets calm when their hands are making. More, with diagrams, when I perfect my technique without a supervisor. Because when I [...]
I read a great post on my friend Cindy’s awesome garden blog about the fig beetles missing her fig crop in OC this year due to the unusually cool summer there. So I hunted around for this old illo and, can you guess? I started working on another watercolor since Cindy mentioned I should long, [...]
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 [...]
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