Learning more about what to plant, where to get it, what it supports, how to grow it, and what to look for. A diverse ecosystem anywhere will enrich life more in the moment and future. By growing native flowers, trees, and shrubs you support new insects, moths, birds, caterpillars that you haven’t seen before, at risk of losing their habitat.

It is Earthly needs I have to go into nature, and envision it in my dreams. The comfort, interest, and awe has always been there in nature, and I resort to the feeling with me, because I always need it. In the presence to see and learn. Listening to the changes and differences. Learning how to identify plants and trees from looking at them, and trying to remember. Over time it becomes a part of me, but I never get tired of looking, of the anticipation of what is going to happen. The care, forgiveness, show and love that I give and receive.

I believe there is a connection between the native plants and the world I live, it is larger than myself, and connected to the universe and woman nature. It’s overwhelming to try to understand it in relation to everything.

I go out and draw things that are happening right now, that day, whatever, what I’m looking at, and watching. I get a vision of colors, something living I want to paint. By working on a painting, there is a difference between the real thing, the drawing, and the painting. The feeling and presence from one medium to the other has to hold up. It’s something beyond the thing that’s visual, spiritual, and physical. It’s a record of what happened when. How things happen, me, my life, right now what I see, what’s now.