Doorstep Begonia

No need for a welcome mat
when lush red begonias
are there to greet you.

This is a 5" x 7" watercolor drawing
on card stock.
Title, date, and artists signature
is on the back.

Kale and Collard Greens

End of May and the container garden
is beginning to provide greens for the kitchen.

This is a 5" x 7" watercolor drawing on card stock,
title, date and artists signature on the back.

Cottontail

Standing Cottontail

wary and alert

will literally turn tail

toward predator eyes, 

a bait of white fluff

nothing to fill a belly.

This is a 4" x 4" watercolor drawing on professional grade paper.

Red-Eared Slider

The Turtle

is a philosophy embodied: 

Contain Oneself

Be Observant

Let the World Unfold Around You

Make No False Moves

This is a 3.5" x 5.5" watercolor drawing on professional grade stock.

Agave Parryi

Agave Parryi,

Century Plant,

at home on Wilson Mountain 

high above Sedona.

This is a 5" x 7" watercolor drawing on professional grade card stock.

The Great Swamp

Who made this place

of wandering water?

Maze of pickerelweed, 

sweet spicebush and skunk cabbage,

where guideposts 

of red maple,

not-quite drowned,

wait for the chisel 

of the architect-engineer

 in his glossy brown

beaver coat.

This is an original watercolor, ink, and acrylic drawing on professional quality paper stock, approximately 4.5" x 4.5".

FrOGS

Meandering stream

bordered by watery alcoves 

of cool shade

under heart leaves

sentient bubbles 

of amphibian eyes

spy.

Friends of the Great Swamp

know this sanctuary

of the soul

guard and celebrate

this heavenly earth.

This is an original watercolor, ink, and acrylic drawing on professional quality paper stock, approximately 4.5" x 4.5".

Spatterdock

Nuphar lutea,

yellow pond lily,

spatterdock, cowlily, brandy-bottle, 

common names for an alien flower

of toybox yellow

a plastic knob on a rubber rod,

pond's eye,

for sequestered mud turtles

a periscope.

This is a watercolor, ink and acrylic drawing on professional quality paper stock, approximately 4" x 5".