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Lake and Garden: Sad Roses & Delighted Day Lilies
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Sad Roses and Delighted Day Lilies. The weather in Texas this spring has been wet enough to support a true English garden! My drought tolerant plants look weary, the roses are getting black spot and dropping all their leaves,. But the day lilies are having their best year yet. This garden area is very close to the sea wall and exposed to the wind, but the lily stems are really hardy. I think these star shaped yellow lilies are just as showy multi-petaled varieties. My favorite jo...
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Lake and Garden: Garden 'Volunteers', Good and Bad
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Garden 'Volunteers', Good and Bad. Here is the seawall garden, freshly weeded and looking its best, compliments of a dear friend visiting from the northeast. This tenacious weeder and I spent two and half days working from the pointy end to the far fence, wrangling out weeds and the invading roots of our St. Augustine lawn. I fear it's a no-win situation with that grass - it can't believe its not welcome. That little strip of metal edging is not a barrier of any sort.). And the ...
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Lake and Garden: March 2014
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Texas wildflowers are starting their show. Drifts of delicate, white Crow-poison are springing up in the common ground across from our house. The March winds (gales) have been making everything difficult to photograph! This yellow, ruffle edged wildflower is new to me. I found only one plant, and I'm tempted to go back and rescue it before the mowers attack. It's a native deciduous perennial called Puccoon (Lithospermum incisum),. And apparently will grow into a small bush. Welco...
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Lake and Garden: Armadillo Blues
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Sunday, August 2, 2015. Our yard is under armadillo attack. These funny looking little dinosaurs have grubbed around a bit during the past few years, but they didn't do too much damage, so we were willing to share our plot of land. There's a nice southwestern weirdness about them, and it's always fun to see the local wildlife. But now things have gotten out of hand. It's not just that they throw dirt all over the place, and toss stones about, and destroy my twig edgings. The Black Diamond crepe myrtle co...
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Lake and Garden: April 2014
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014. We had some amazing luck with the weather during our visit to The Netherlands. The sun smiled on us during our morning at the Keukenhof Gardens. Leaden skies suddenly parted, the sun came out, and there were ribbons of color everywhere! It's hard not to gush. The Keukenhof Gardens are a springtime dream of color. Last year during this same week, there were no flowers. A long and cold winter delayed the spring. We saw these glorious gardens in full bloom. I might not have noted ...
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Lake and Garden: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Sad Roses and Delighted Day Lilies. The weather in Texas this spring has been wet enough to support a true English garden! My drought tolerant plants look weary, the roses are getting black spot and dropping all their leaves,. But the day lilies are having their best year yet. This garden area is very close to the sea wall and exposed to the wind, but the lily stems are really hardy. I think these star shaped yellow lilies are just as showy multi-petaled varieties. My favorite jo...
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Lake and Garden: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. A sudden storm on Saturday evening pointed out a flaw in my garden planning. While gentle rains drain down the hill and wash mulch into the lake, fierce storms create wave action that breaches the seawall and washes the mulch into the yard. Assaulted from both directions! From inside the house we watched ten foot spums of spray crash up and over the wall and fence. 160;Our heavy wooden rocking chairs went sailing by into the bushes. I did collect a bouquet of butterfly bush flower...
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I was recently struck by the phrase "embrace impermanence". How apt in so many ways! To work creatively, to be an artist, is the relish change and experimentation. The visual arts are bound by form: line, shape, value, color and texture. As an artist, I love the challenge of exploring these elements in a variety of mediums. My current work follows themes of change, movement, and evolution in dynamic mixed media pieces. I am also intrigued as to how these themes apply to the natural world.
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Lake and Garden: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Abstract Sculpture at the Nasher. The scorcher days of July are upon us - with temperatures topping 100, it literally feels like we are carrying the heat around on our heads and shoulders. Perfect weather to escape into the cool climate of an art gallery! The bright and restless energy of the latest exhibit inside the Nasher Sculpture Center is providing high contrast to its ever tranquil gardens. It was exciting and unnerving at the same time. But looking closer it was apparent...
