This Giant Swallowtail wouldn’t sit where I could get a good photo of her.  She has been spending a lot of time around the orange tree this week.

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I was out back yesterday and heard the happiest of birds singing. It wasn’t a song I remembered hearing out there so it got the better of my curiosity. It sounded like it was coming from my neighbor’s tree and after a little searching I saw his sitting high in the branches.Can you spot him? [...]

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Here is another great Halloween card for you to download. I love all these vintage cards, don’t you?

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Back in November I introduced you to my giant asparagus. In May I told you that it looked like it was starting to bloom. The buds opened enough to put out little flower parts. And then the flowers sort of dried up and did nothing more.  I started telling Recliner Man that it was time [...]

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Today I was making ATCs from Friendly Plastic.  You guessed it, this was another chapter in  Artist Trading Card Workshop by Bernie Berlin. In Bernie’s book she suggests stamping into the warm plastic but that didn’t work out very well for me. Either I had the plastic too hot or my touch was too heavy [...]

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