banquet

autumn

broccoli and dahlias and runner beans

venus fly trap

almost forgot to share, our venus flytrap flowered.

kind of amazing.

also, our stick bugs hatched. true story.

saguaro

here.

doughnuts + euphorbias = good

 

i had a perfect saturday morning.

it started with four super-fine ladies and the desert plant society's annual succulent sale and show at van dusen botanical gardens, and concluded with coffee and lucky's doughnuts.

(the rhubarb fritter was all well and good but the texture of that cruller?!?)

came home with more cacti than i need, including (but not limited to) a hot dog cactus, a crazy good euphorbia, and a tiny acacia tree.

notepads and rex begonia

taking some pictures of our new notepads today, but have been completely taken in by the pearly rex begonia leaves I have been trying to use as a prop. they literally shimmer and are fast becoming a new obsession.

(the notepads are making me happy too: 4 x 6 inches, 50 pages, printed offset, one of five styles. will be in the shop soon!)

mimosa

closer to home...

jil sander and baltimore

i loved raf simon's farewell collection for jil sander, but what sent me over the moon were the flowers, from baltimore in antwerp -

amazing what putting something in a glass vitrine does...

images via here and here.

wild flowers of the world

botanical illustrations by barbara everard for wild flowers of the world (1970)

monday

josef albers, and the last of the mingus dahlias.