24 Replies to “Assembly”

  4. Amie Heath – A crazy redhead - subject to change - that has some weird ideas and probably likes to talk too much! I'm married to the Jolly German and have been known to brag about him here and there as we try and follow God's lead each step of the way.
    bigredhead42 says:

    LOVE this picture!

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  5. Gary – Hello and thanks for checking out my blog. I have worked in the environmental field since high school and did everything from environmental education to envrionemtnal stewardsh including habitat restoration, invasive species control, endangered species recovery, and other conservation projects. I have been involved with environmental Councils and Task Forces including: South Shore Estuary Reserve Council, N.Y. State Seagrass Task Force, Protected Lands Council/Long Island Pine Barrens, New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force and the Long Island Sound Study. My philosophy is that through cooperation we can address the environmental issues with what businesses are doing, but there has to be give and take on both sides for the benefit of our natural environment and all the plants and wildlife that live there. After retiring in Florida, I decided to develop this site to share the amazing natural world we live in and to show the diversity and importance of species. In today's world, there is so much going on and our lives are so busy that I prefer to keep my blogs short, simple and to let the pictures tell the story. Although I strive for accuracy, should you see a mistake, feel free to let me know so I can correct it and please share your encounters with the natural world.
    Gary says:

    There is something peaceful about taking time out from hectic lives to enjoy the beauty nature has to offer. Thanks for checking out my blog too. Seems like we have similar interests!

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  6. artzent – I am a visual artist and teacher of Fine art working and teaching in all 2D media. You can see images of my work in many categories, view my biography,comment on artwork, see what's on the easel right now, and more when you go to https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/junepauline-zent I will be blogging here about personal true stories and sharing my life and work. I hope that you will comment and share yours with me!
    artzent says:

    Beautiful photo. Yes they stop here in Florida and enjoy my wild flowers!

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  8. travelerlynne – US – Traveler. Writer. Retired Educator.Traveling on and off the beaten path with my photographer husband. Volunteering locally as well as in Haiti and Tanzania, an enriching and humbling experience. A sun lover! Shelling, boating, fishing and watching sunsets. Growing mango, banana, key lime,and pineapple.Making smoothies and chutneys. Enjoying family and friends! Savoring each new day!
    travelerlynne says:

    Striking photo and it a harbinger that summer is almost over.

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  10. sharonstjoan – Poet, writer, and advocate for wildlife, wild lands, and the earth. President, Forest Voices of India - a U.S.-based group which aids charities in India that further education, culture, the well-being of women, children, and animals, and the restoration of sacred groves. websites: https://wordpress.com/view/forestvoicesofindia.com https://wordpress.com/view/echoesinthemist.com https://wordpress.com/view/wildvoices.world book: Glimpses of Kanchi https://www.amazon.com/Glimpses-Kanchi-Sharon-St-Joan/dp/1982901179/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Glimpses+of+Kanchi&qid=1581769003&sr=8-1
    sharonstjoan says:

    Reblogged this on Voices and Visions.

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  11. Lyle Krahn – Saskatoon, SK, Canada – Humour connoisseur. Analyzer. Creative. Political arm chair quarterback. Unpredictably right. Cartoonist who can’t draw🥺
    lylekrahn says:

    Nice flock!

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  13. inkpaintwords – A feminist writer and artist with a penchant for all things French, living in Washington DC. My love of language led me, indirectly, to my pleasure in gardening, drawing and watercolor. It began with a book, a collection of New Yorker garden columns by Katherine White, wife of its founding editor E.B.White. Her enthusiastic appraisal of the literary merit of various garden catalogs led me to collect and keep her favorites as well as to hoard with them some more recently-emerged seed, bulb and seed catalogs. The beautiful catalogs inspired me to little by little turn our entire front lawn (our home had a wooded ravine close behind) into a garden. That grew into a lovely site with two simple arches, a gliding bench on a little sitting patio and modest slate paths winding through beds of shade lovers and whatever plants supposedly in need of full sun that I could manage to coax into colorful healthy bloom. A curiosity about color and color theory emerged as I became keenly interested in impressionist painters; that interest merged in some way with my urge to garden. I acquired more than one book about Monet’s garden and gardens of other impressionist painters, both French and American. One day I picked up a magazine for painters, and found inside an article about a painter I’d known. Among examples of her splendid watercolor paintings was her watercolor of her garden at that time. Suddenly I could think of nothing more exciting than painting my garden. I enrolled in her watercolor class in The Art League in Alexandria, VA. The influence that the collection of Katherine White’s columns about the literary merits of certain garden catalogs has had on my life has come full now. Ink, Paint & Words combines what has become an obsession with drawing and watercolor with my passion for language. Yes, I still garden. A table full of blooming potted plants sits on my apartment patio, backed by an ivy covered fence with park trees behind. My patio, and my larger environment of Washington DC, together provides wonderful vistas for drawing and painting. For a number of years annual trips to France gave me and my companions extravagantly colorful panoramas and charming tableaux for brush and pen. And yes, now I’ve painted in Monet’s gardens several times. But that, as they say, is another story.
    inkpaintwords says:

    I love the idea of living in “the Northeast Kingdom” and find the pictured presence of several butterflies on that wonderful shrub quite magical!

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  15. beebeesworld – I have a degree in public history research. I love writing, photography, cooking, teaching, nature studies. I'm a mom and grandmom, an "old hippie".
    beebeesworld says:

    beautiful pics-I need to get out and photograph some of the b-flies on the bushes!

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  17. seniorhiker – Fairfield Glade, TN – A retired college math and computer science professor with some experience as a business programmer. Now interested in hiking, especially to waterfalls and working in our yard and rose garden. I also enjoy traveling with Betsy, my bride since 2001.
    seniorhiker says:

    This is a wonderful photo.

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  18. Gretchen Del Rio – Crestline, California, USA – I first discovered the magic of water based colors when many years ago I began to paint with procion dyes on silk. I loved the unexpected quality of the process. It was so exciting to never be sure what the colors and water would combine to produce. It seemed as though the medium had its own passion. Painting with watercolors and paper is much the same. I love the color combinations and separations that occur spontaneously as the color floats on the water. You can never totally predict what effect will result. If you try to control the medium too much, your painting will be very tight losing its aliveness. The artist must be bold and decisive or the work will not be clear and fresh. It is really like a dance. It becomes a controlled folly in knowing when to let go and when to take charge of the direction that the painting is taking. The images that I paint reflect my emotions and are expression of my life experience. They are not extensively planned, but rather evolve as the painting progresses. I am always surprised by the end result since it comes into being because of what the medium and emotion has suggested. The paintings are from my heart and I always fall in love with the subject. I believe that we are all connected and, if an image touches you, it is because we all have the same heart even though our paths may be different. Most of all, painting what I paint makes me happy. The paintings are my own path unfolding. They are an opening door for me and contain my own passion for life.
    Gretchen Del Rio says:

    The clustering of the monarchs is unforgettable. I saw it years ago in Muir Woods of northern California. It is not happening now due, it is thought, to an ecological reason. I’m so glad to have seen them.

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  20. Joanna M. Weston – Born in England, she lives in British Columbia. She is married with three sons, Joanna has an MA from the University of British Columbia. She has published in numerous anthologies and in magazines in Canada, the US, UK, and New Zealand, such as Canadian Women's Studies, Convolvus, Endless Mountains Review, Grain, Green's Magazine, Prairie Fire, Spin, Wascana Review, CBC Gallery, and many more...
    Joanna M. Weston says:

    Gorgeous photo. Love it.

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  21. Great photo. Thanks for dropping by my blog. I guess it was the Monarchs that prompted you.

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