Festive mood for the end of the year: Kangaroo Paws!

I have my bright lights on and have a whole bunch of little festive arrangements going on - apples, persimmons, dry flowers, pine cones, magnolia cones, pistachio tree berries - and a few days ago my collection grew with this branch of Kangaroo Paws! This plant is usually yellow or red and is native to south-western Australia but is now cultivated around the world and scientists sequenced the genome of kangaroo paws and were able to produce many new colors for the kangaroo paw including blues, purples, and whites!

Community Art Showing.

This Holiday Season began for me with arranging a bunch of my works on the walls of the local  community center. 
There is a series of Dog Portraits, 100 views of Silicon Valley and Lakes of the Summer 2021 - painted around Lake Tahoe. 

More from the Mushrooming trip

Forests are such primal places - especially older ones with the multitude of layers opening up more and more as you let the place unfurl by being still. My love for sketching in the forest grows out of stillness that enraptures into a world I did not see before. Even with the smallest, fastest, simplest of sketches by the time I am done and ready to catch up to my party, the world around me is larger. There are more birds, everything suddenly is alive and not what it seemed before. 

I made a video flip-through these pages in my sketchbook:

On My Table: Last day of November 2021

November was colorful, sunny and went super fast. 

Mushrooming - more!

 Here are more mushroom spreads from my sketchbook: