Joanne has kindly passed along a class that sounds like fun at Stone Barns on July 7th 🙂
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!
http://www.stonebarnscenter.org/farm-and-wellness-gtk-lavender/
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Joanne has kindly passed along a class that sounds like fun at Stone Barns on July 7th 🙂
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!
http://www.stonebarnscenter.org/farm-and-wellness-gtk-lavender/
In the month of October into early November we will be having our classes at the Nature Center in Ward Pound Ridge Reserve. Â We will be at Lasdon Arboretum for all classes outside of these dates.
Pound Ridge October 10th – November 3rd. Â Entrance to the park is free for those enrolled in class. Â Parking is easy with no hills or stairs to climb and it’s a just a short drive on Rt.35 from Lasdon.
http://parks.westchestergov.com/ward-pound-ridge-reservation/trailside-nature-museum?task=view
We are very lucky to have two lovely locations in the Fall, each beautiful =)  For class details please go to Classes at the top of this site.
The class at NYBG went well…..nice students with lots of lovely drawings. Â The final drawings are due by August 1st, I’m looking forward to seeing each one =)
Here are some photos of the British Soldier Lichen I took with my iPhone. Â The first one is a direct shot and the last three are shot through the lens of the dissecting microscope. Â If you look closely you can see the tiny mosses at the feet of the lichen. Â This British Soldier Lichen is about 1cm tall….a tiny world…enjoy!
I wish I would have taken photos of my class and students but I didn’t get the brilliant thought until I was half way up the Saw Mill Parkway =(
Every once in a while you stumble onto something wonderful on the internet.  While researching mosses for my class at NYBG I did exactly that…I stumbled on an artist named Robert Muma.  To learn more about this artists and his life please go to his website at http://worldofmosses.com/robertmuma/index.html
He created a beautiful series of paintings of tiny mosses….a world so often stepped over……
(click on image once to bring up image and then again to bring up enlargement) =)
Andrew took the day off to hang with the pups, work in the yard and watch some soccer…..woof…..
It was a beautiful day…..I packed up all my supplies and headed down to NYBG. Â I have 6 students in my workshop. Â There were some familiar faces, people I had known from classes I had taken at NYBG several years ago and two students who knew me from Lasdon Arboretum. Â It’s a very nice group of ladies….
The only glitch was they had slide microscopes instead of dissecting microscopes so it was difficult for my class to see their samples. Â The office promised that next week they will have the proper scopes in the the class…
All in all it was a good day =)
Looks like we may get a bit of rain at the beginning of our morning….no worries, we can just sit under some shelter and sketch until the rain goes away =)
Another marker for Vickie’s drive way is a green mailbox with a pineapple on it. Â Follow the dirt road down to the gate. Â For those of you who are coming you don’t need to buzz at the gate…it will open automatically…..
See you soon….
Feeling a bit like Seattle with all this rain, rain, rain…. Â I’m hoping that Thursday morning will be nice for Maddi’s garden. Â Saturday’s weather looks like it will cooperate for Vickie’s home. Â If the rain is too much on Thursday we may have to move it to Friday….we can only wait and see what Mother Nature has on her calendar =)
If you haven’t already….please let me know if you plan on coming and need directions =)