More Produce.

Parsnips!

Although the very thin root ends of the parsnips won't be worth peeling and eating, the tops will be delicious. Such long roots are the result of having new raised vegetable beds with very friable soil. Amazing!

Making Gingerbread Dinosaurs

New Butterlies for a New Year

To start off the New Year here is a recent photo of some Imperial Blue butterflies emerging from their chrysalids. These butterflies aren't particularly rare where they occur, but to see them as they emerged, fresh and new was very special. These butterflies not only prefer a particular type of wattle tree, they only pupate on selected trees of the species. There were quite a few trees where I found these emerging butterflies, but there were chrysalids on only one or two. The Chrysalids are attended by a particular species of ant, so it may be that those ants only visited these few trees.

Artist for September, J.M.W Turner.

Artist for August, Gustav Klimt.

Artist for July, James Gleeson.

Artist for June, Leonard French.

After a very long break from this blog I thought that it would be a good idea to put up the rest of my pieces in the Artist a Month series.

With seven people in the group, there were 7 artists chosen for the year, so here are my remaining four interpretations of the artists chosen.