@dannyboy Slainte Mhath that sounds so exciting!
@lovendures I love your avatar! Filled with love and joy, just like you.
@jeanne-mayell I can't recall when I've seen such rich, pure light in a painting. I know how difficult that is to achieve, even in a photograph. If you find your way back to the canvas, it would certainly benefit the lives of many. This work is directly beautiful, communicating love.
@lovendures is right, that's a very tromp l'oeil painting. I actually did think it was a photo before I read your post. Lovendures, I am also glad to be able to match your energy with a colorful avatar. (Are those suppose to be butterflies?)
They do look a lot like butterflies don't they?
Actually, they are hearts.
This is a portion of street art in Venice, Ca on a wall of a building. It is huge and has blue and purple hearts also, this is simply what I could fit in for the avatar.
Your avatar is wonderful and visually speaks your name Coyote. I when I tried to figure out what I could use for an avatar, I also thought perhaps something that visually spoke my name. I think this one does a pretty fair job.
@febbby23 I have not known deer to like milkweed. It needs full sun though. The more that is planted, the more likely the monarch will survive. Monsanto (Round-up) and other pesticide companies have helped to reduce the monarchs to near endangerment. Haven't seen more than a few in my area in the last five years. I used to see dozens of them.
Add mine to the chorus of approving voices. Wow.
@jeanne-mayell I'm going to try. I've had all sorts of little and big animals eat everything before. I'm used to the disappointment. :)
@febbby23 @polarberery There is an active group of women in my town who buy hundreds of milkweed plugs (tiny sprouts) and sell them at a big discount to anyone willing to plant them. One woman puts them out on her porch for people to pick up. I buy them and plant them in fields and at my community garden where there is full sun. I have this one little sunny spot in my yard, so I planted them there, and bam, I got one monarch last summer and two this summer. It's a paltry number compared to the old days, but it's growing. And species have been known to come back from near extinction.
I also think I'm going to plant butterfly weed (budlea) and see what happens.
Although milkweed is the only plant that monarchs can lay their eggs on.
Your avatar is wonderful and visually speaks your name Coyote.
Why thank you. Fun fact: when I joined the forum in 2019 I debated between registering under the name Coyote (my spirit animal) or Cedar/BrotherCedar (eastern red cedar is my spirit tree). My third eye led me to Coyote.