My Art.
The Belted Kingfisher of North America. Believe or not this gaily colored bird is a female putting the male to shame. An unusual arrangement among birds. A watercolor painting.
We have a fox’s den just over the way from our house. The dog fox can be seen sunning himself on our front lawn. By climbing up the escarpment I can look down on the den, and on a hot spring morning I can watch the kits at play. For these many reasons I enjoyed creating this watercolour painting.
Coloured Pencil, plus pressed Plant, imposed on a Spore Print.
Fungi are everywhere in very large numbers—in the soil and the air, in lakes, rivers, and seas, on and within plants and animals. Although closer related to animals than plants.
Mycorrhizae plays a significant role in plant nutrition. Because they are unseen, they are often disregarded. Just what are mycorrhizae and why are they so important in plant production?
Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a green plant and a fungus. The plant makes organic molecules by photosynthesis and supplies them to the fungus in the form of sugars or lipids, while the fungus supplies the plant with water and mineral nutrients, such as phosphorus, taken from the soil.
Acrylic Painting.
Great blue herons mainly nest in trees. Males arrive at the colony and settle on nest sites; from there, they court-passing females. Colonies can consist of five hundred or more individual nests, with multiple nests per tree built high off the ground. Males gather nest material and present it to the female as a gift. to weave the nest. During courtship, the male employs a stretch display and uses erectile neck feathers; the neck area may swell.
