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There were some of these beauties flying about, but I didn’t get my camera out until they left. Unusually more monarch butterflies this summer than the last three years. I saw them all over the place, which is great. This the first time though, that as caterpillars, they were in my garden feasting on the milkweed. I counted at least twelve of them.
They are in their pupae stage now, which I have not been able to spot, but I hope they come around again as third generation ones. The picture below was taken in the summer of 2012.
The image below was taken in the summer of 2013 of the bumble bee partaking in the hydrangea bush, their favorite this time of year.
The following pictures are taken outside where the blue tone is seen more clearly.
The idea for this painting came as vision over the course of a few years. The intent was strong and I felt it had to be drawn out on canvas.
An interesting thing happened while in the midst of this painting. I got an email from a person inquiring if I had done their sunset painting because it, as well, was by a ‘L’Etoile’. The framed picture was a vibrant scene of an incredible sunset over an ocean. I wish I knew who it was. Funny how life is, if you’re thinking about a subject, this one being sunsets, the subject becomes an object and appears in all kinds of ways right in front of you.
New Hampshire in the winter after a snow storm. Heavy wet snow and an overcast sky make for a chilly, contrasting image.
This snow sticks to everything it touches, making space appear more ‘closed in’ and the air so very quiet, kind of like what fog does.
Watching the sun going down over the ocean was pretty sweet, since I usually see it going in the opposite direction in New Hampshire.
Here is ‘Lucinda the Great’, a very young Venus Flytrap.(Dionaea muscipula)
And, the unsuspecting fly.
End of Fall Foliage
Happy Halloween!
‘Make Haste Slowly’
The Filoli Estate, in Woodside, California, had several formal gardens and a tour of the house, all of which is being preserved by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
