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![Mona Caron's Joe Pye Weed Mural](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1eb7ff_8d9d4c3f3eb842dc845e219e7ed97b88~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_312,h_234,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/1eb7ff_8d9d4c3f3eb842dc845e219e7ed97b88~mv2.webp)
Mona Caron's Joe Pye Weed Mural
Swiss-born artist Mona Caron creates beautiful, giant murals on buildings. This is her Joe Pye weed mural, titled Shauquethqueat's...
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Check out the latest project by Ink Dwell Studios
The Migrating Mural is a series of murals that highlight animals that migrate along corridors they share with humans within the North...
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The Root Children
Oh how I love illustrations such as this one "The Root Children - Spring" from the book by Sibylle von Olfers, 1928.
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Spider and Bee
If you've been following my blog posts, you know how passionate I am about creating habitat for pollinators. I couldn't resist sharing...
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Happy 2020!
I hope your new year is starting well. Let's all make this a better and brighter year!
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Happy New Year!
Here is a lovely illustration by one of my favorite children's book author and illustrator, Elsa Beskow. I wish you a very happy and...
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Sprouting doormat
Well look what we have here... With all the rain that we have been getting (thank goodness!), I'm finding plants sprouting in the most...
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Natural sculptures
This weekend we purchased several pumpkins to carve for Halloween. And then I saw these. Doesn't this squash look just like the profile...
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Art with a little help from garden friends
Today I finally had some time to make some solar prints on fabric. We had some bright, sunny afternoon hours, and just some light breezes...
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What a great project!
This is one of the beautiful, larger than life murals by Brooklyn based-artist George Boorujy in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York....