Tag: flowers
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Secret spring
It’s been a tough couple of weeks around here, and it’s the time of year when the Northwest is shrouded in a dark silver cloud most days. But just out my studio window is an early-blooming camellia, giving me a pop of spring color just when I need it most.
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Apple blossom time
I took this photo of one of our apple trees a couple of weeks ago, when the blossoms were at their peak. Now the tree just has a couple of blooms still hanging on— —but if you look closely, it has other surprises in store.
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In the pink
The rhododendroon is the state flower of Washington, so it’s not like I’m not used to seeing them around town. But this pink monster, which practically dwarfs our neighbor’s house, is something else again. Spring was never my favorite season before we moved to the Northwest (I’m more of an autumn gal in general), but…
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Petal power
I might have a personal preference for autumn, but spring really is the Northwest’s best season. The days are rapidly getting longer, everywhere you look is just bursting with color, and—my favorite part—the season lasts and lasts, for months on end. I have acres of work before me in the studio, but I can’t help…
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Hedge trimmings
Look! I made an alphabet! It’s funny—I almost never design an entire alphabet. In general, lettering projects just don’t really work like that. Most of the time, a letterer(erer) designs only the letterforms required for the word or phrase they’re lettering. That’s really the best way to create letter styles (which are not the same…
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Victoria the Second
I just got back from a return trip to Victoria—this time with the Tailor in tow. We were only there for a couple of days, but long enough for me to see the Gardens—and sketch them— —in their summer colors. This was the Tailor’s first trip to Victoria, so I got to relive some favorite…
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How does your garden grow?
A couple of months ago I was asked to create a letterpress broadside for a collaborative print portfolio for a show in Asheville, put together by the Ladies of Letterpress. The theme was Expanding Communities—beyond that, we could do anything we wanted. So I focused on a unique element of Seattle’s community: the P-Patch. A…
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First blush
And just like that, the season turns. I don’t know what that Punxsutawney Phil guy thinks he knows, but his predictions rarely apply here. Spring comes early in the Northwest, and yesterday I spied this little harbinger of good things to come. I’ll take the predictions of the trees over any prognosticating rodent. The sun’s…
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Leaves through the Looking Glass
The three days Nicole and I spent in Victoria were star-studded with beauty and color, but nothing was quite so breathtaking as the Butchart Gardens, just a few minutes north of the city. Now a Canadian National Historic Site, the Gardens were the private grounds surrounding the home of Robert and Jennie Butchart. So the…