Good morning! It’s going to be such a lovely day. I’ve been wandering in my tangle of a “garden” in my backyard, counting cucumbers and watermelons, (no pumpkins that I can see, yet) and picking fire ants off of my ankles. Most of my backyard is planted with various flowers and plants to nurture pollinators, but small sections of it are our food garden. We have peas, tomatoes, peppers, a small lemon bush, asparagus, carrots, onions, several herbs, and the afore mentioned watermelons, cucumbers, and pumpkins. It’s all an overgrown, full of “weeds” and grasses, and I love it! I love whipping out my phone, pulling up the app that helps me identify the bugs, birds, and plants I see. This plant is a host for a tiny butterfly, this plant is an introduced, invasive weed… We also have a swimming pool, but the pump is on the fritz, so right now it’s got tadpoles, tiny toadlets, dragonfly larva, and water bugs, (we treat the pool for mosquito larvae, plus the dragonflies eat lots of mosquitoes). I LOVE those polliwogs! It’s so much fun to watch them, and to observe the changes as they grow little legs and morph into tiny toads and frogs.
While I love working back there, and just wandering around, the heat of the day often chases me back inside, to the comfort of air conditioning and ice water. Inside of my house isn’t much better than the outside… but it’s a snapshot of what I love to do… create! Cans of paint and jars full of brushes, clay and clay tools, silver wire and the various gewgaws used to shape it into jewelry… even my cameras and lenses are on the kitchen cabinet, at the ready in case a butterfly should flitter through the wildflower garden. Currently I’m into pour painting, where you pour paint on a canvas and see what happens! Ok, it’s a little more involved than that, and there is a bit of planning that goes into it, lots of sciencey stuff. But if done right, pour painting can result in some beautiful abstract art. And bonus, I pretty much always end up covered in paint! Sometimes I use my fingers to finesse the paint, so I have a special pair of pants that I wear so I can wipe my hands on them. Ha! James says that the pants are my best work! Again I say Ha!
It’s chaos, but it’s MY chaos!
Hello Butterfly! 