Sweets of Talents from Sirce Kwai
The Garden House’s Spring planting started in February. Mid-February the trees were trimmed for the upcoming hurricane season. Hurricane season begins June 1st of any year. I hadn’t trimmed the garden in 4 years. This year the garden was Continue Reading …
Loxahatchee Road, south Boca Raton entry into the Everglades, homes alligators. This is my personal snapshot taken off the low gradient banks. Before taking such a shot, I make sure nothing besides me and bugs are in the tall grasses. Continue Reading …
South Florida experienced near tropical storm winds and rain today. I hadn’t seen my newly trimmed trees with storm quality winds up until today. One elderberry sapling needed roping to the older palm tree to keep it from folding over Continue Reading …
The white-headed model became black-haired through the magic of watercolor sketching. The model, my friend George, comes from Russian lineage. American for many generations, yet there seems to be the Russian passion for politics and culture ingrained in him. A good Continue Reading …
Browsing through You Tube at the end of a long work day, I found this deliberate video. I never heard of the dancer, Sergei Polunin or the songwriter of “Take me to Church” (Hozier) or David LaChapelle, director. At first I Continue Reading …
Buds begin Spring mid-February in south Florida. While most trees do not molt, winter slows growth. With this year’s winter rains, the greens readily grew. After a three year intentional wildness period, this Garden House was due for the Big Continue Reading …
Basic tools for sketching with coffee are pencils and coffee. Brewed in the man-shaped Italian espresso maker, black coffee tarts the tongue. Placing the coffee down and picking up the pencil is the piano key note progression. What this mystical Continue Reading …
This is another 17 minute 14 second video about the baby alligator, the grunt. I’m examining more about the anatomy and habitat with Sean Mallee, the Naturalist of DaggerWing Nature in this second video. The Grunt is very soft at Continue Reading …
The baby alligator in my hands is only 4 months old. At this age, they are nothing but sweet. The baby alligator is called a ‘grunt’. Yellow stripes distinguish these from older young alligators. The gender is not yet certain Continue Reading …
Dimple Children portraits differ from adult portraits in detail. Childrens’ faces are simpler and have softer edges. This young one is 10 years old. He sat for me after finishing up his math diagnostic test. Inbetween washing my brush out Continue Reading …