my star garden

freelance consultant // right brain planner // art journaler {artist & dreamer; maker of collage & altered books; doodler & junk-mail collager; stargazer & red dirt gardener} // day-dream believer & visual thinker {outed introvert & discoverer of the magic of solitude and quietness} stargardener.com

[mystargarden]

She knew to trust her spirit That grace would set her rhythms Carrying her like the tide That details would work out That there is no "behind" Nor is there "catching up" She knew she had all she needed Enough Even as doubts remained A sadness undefined As she moved through As she lived her story One day at a time. -stargardener.com

[fleurdulys]

Interior onto a Garden - Grace Cossington Smith

[nevver]

Frédéric Forest

[huariqueje]

Before the Rain, Mono Lake   -   Chiura Obata   , 1930.

Japanese-American 

Colour woodcut

[iamjapanese]

Wang Yu Yuan（汪钰元 Chinese, b.1943）

here, here, here and here   

[wapiti3]

Buffon and Lacepede natural history of fish

By The Cépède, Count (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville on Illon), 1756-1825 

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 Loos, Philipp, 1754-1819

Publication info Berlin: In the bookstore go. Commerzien-Raths Pauli, 1799-1804.

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

[justanothermasterpiece]

Jenny Prinn. 

[missmountain-deactivated2021101]

Kerby Rosanes

[patagonia]

[travelgasm]

[bryandaugherty]

Jackson, Wyoming.

[justanothermasterpiece]

Madeleine Wories‎.

[justanothermasterpiece]

Antoni Tapies. 

[justanothermasterpiece]

Robert Rauschenberg.

[alithographica]

First pass of watercolors for this page.

[humanoidhistory]

Astrological illustrations from an 1869 edition of Atlas of Astronomy by Alexander Keith Johnston. (David Rumsey Map Collection)

[explore-blog]

Harvard has a library that protects the world’s rarest colors, founded by historian and pigment aficionado Edward Forbes, considered the father of art conservation in America. (Goethe would be thrilled.)