tiny ones

in the bigger pot. I got this while volunteering at a botanical garden for something with kids. I went once and for some reasons, don’t think I want to do it again … 😋 but the two girls at my table had interesting name combos with their brothers. Piaf and Pierre, Florence and Terrence. It seriously felt surreal when they told me... it came up in conversation when I mentioned I was feeding my sandwich bread to squirrels and sparrows during my lunch break. It’s cool/weird how bonding can happen so easily with kids.

this was my first time propagating a snake plant. I think I needed to because something happened at the middle of a leaf? So after cutting it off, I had the tip, and after letting it dry out so the cut part could close up, I planted it in some soil … and soon, another little shoot came up. Now it’s really tall and skinny and definitely too big for the little pot. Moving it into the purple plastic bowl. Snake plants like pots that are not too big.

lol and the 2nd mystery sprout turns out to be 白菜🥬 Chinese Cabbage. I got a two gallon pot for $2.99, used two bags of organic soil to fill it up ($5.99 each). And let’s see how an indoor cabbage will do! View quoted note →

this *is* a weed! but an edible one that people like to forage for called wild spinach. ok I will grow it and maybe use it as a garnish. View quoted note →

ooOooh it just grew like this

PISCES AND A GEMINI 💥📣 ~ pressed up in the bathroom line ~ ::::: this is taking so long to color ::::: ‘one thing leads to another’

this is a mystery. the four sage sprouts from the second batch of 12 seeds clearly have a uniform look of sage leaves, with the texture that they have . . . which just make the first two sprouts (bigger ones on top) clearly look like they’re not. The rounded huge one looks more like a lettuce leaf, or radish greens. The one next to it, I don’t know. Is this normal variation? the four little ones are also growing at a much slower rate than the two bigger ones did. although those have slowed down, I think. #sageseeds eh, fun tho. Glad I tried growing a herb from seed.

two fortune cookie fortunes 🥠 🥠

some sketches about pain (from people’s abusive behaviors) and anger. sketched around last year and this year. words from the Imagine Dragons song Believer.

brown paper theme for the daily pages. maybe can put quotes on them.

4 seeds sprouted from the second batch of 12. On days 9, 10, annnd 11?? So a total of 6 sprouts from 16 seeds. they are planted too close together, since I didn’t want to fill too many pots with soil. Unlike the first two, which looked very different from each other, the next four all looked very standard and identical to each other (and not like the first two), which is interesting. At first, they looked like stair steps in height, due to sequence of coming up. Then they evened out to be the same height. I think in a day or two I’ll try to transplant the 5 in one pot into separate pots. #sageseeds

Dandelions on Lawn 4.5” x 5.5” watercolor on sketchbook paper Drawn on 3/21 in anticipation of the Spring lawn, which is now here

I like this website of book reviews https://www.booknookrevs.com/nook

rereading chapt. 3 of Wild by Cheryl Strayed is making me want to post this picture. I wonder why. clippings from outside has started.

more book based than drawing based this time. lyrics from a 1971 David Bowie song, then covered by AURORA in 2016 for the album GIRLS volume 3. #marcoverpage #26

last night, I was sitting on the couch and started thinking about what a bummer it is that I didn’t take a photo early enough of the sage sprout that came out looking like a butterfly. Now it’s bigger and has two distinct leaf parts, and if I wanted to draw it, I wouldn’t have a photo reference. Well, better late than never … I reached over to get it to take a photo of it, and surprise surprise! the two leaf parts had closed up again! This was especially surprising because a new tiny leaf was already starting to come up in the middle. So I got the photo of how it had looked from the start. Looked it up and this behavior / phenomenon might be “nyctinasty” or sleep movements of a plant. Common in plants of the bean family. Hmmm. #sageseeds

the sage seeds are actually sprouting - one in each pot. One started out with a butterfly shape before separating out into two, and one looks like a tiny miniature sage plant. #sageseeds

#referencephotos #febcoverpage Used photos from the “pulled rickshaw” Wikipedia page for reference and learned some things about it. 16 countries & big cities used it - Africa (East Africa, Madagascar, Nairobi, South Africa), Asia (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong), India (Simla, Kolkata), Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, North America (USA, Canada - Halifax, Ottawa) … and the Philippines were the one exception. “The pulled rickshaw never gained acceptance in the Philippines. Americans tried to introduce it to Manila in the early 20th century, but it was strongly opposed by local Filipinos who viewed it as an undignified mode of transport that turned humans into "beasts". The main mode of public and private transportation in the Philippines from the 18th to the early 20th centuries was the kalesa, a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.”