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Ah, my first night of Botanical Illustration class, taught by the exceptional Bay Area naturalist, environmental educator, and artist John Muir Laws (known as “Jack”). It was an evening of tearing apart common florist shop blooms (namely Asiatic lilies and alstroemerias) to study their reproductive structures and advertising skills (i.e. petals). Some notable things [...]  There are plenty of expensive trips geared for retirees to visit some botanical garden on the other side of the world, but I have yet to find an opportunity to take advantage of my favorite dual reasons for packing my bags: music and exploring the outdoors. It seems a logical combination. Like metal, the [...] My little bimonthly walk down Masonic for my cheap Trader Joe’s flowers and even cheaper wine is regularly enhanced by checking out the shrubs and annuals growing in the scraggly little sidewalk gardens (not to mention the phenomenal display of Fremontodendron californica, Echium fastuosum, and Ceanothus in front of USF Benedetti Diamond). This afternoon [...] It seemed only too perfect that yesterday afternoon Kelsey and I pulled into a parking spot right next to our fave eatery outerlands at 45th and Judah and right there next to my open passenger door was a Heineken box stuffed with a complete set of vintage Encyclopedia of Gardening books. A sign to [...] |
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