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The garden flowers are attracting many things including butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. They are inspiring my paintings right now.   Soba buckwheat blossoms.

Hello there!  I have been working on this bunny rabbit with a butterfly on its nose.  This here is the first layer.  Sometimes I like the first layer and feel it doesn't need much else!  But I will keep adding layers and really build it up hopefully well.

Labor Day weekend was spent in Door County, Wisconsin.  The first day we spent at Peninsula State Park which is woods, beaches, and of course, water.   Lots of nature and perfect weather. Lots of wildlife. Summer fun to still be had! Monarch butterflies all over the place. A family of ducks.

Last summer I did a series of paintings around butterflies including caterpillars, milkweed, and a variety of butterfly paintings in both oil paint and watercolor.   I still have a few left!  Here is a peek at the butterfly collection:  

I painted this blue karner butterfly today (endangered in Michigan state).  They need lupine fields and there just aren't that many natural fields of it anymore. I know on the ranch the workers spray the lupine because it causes grave deformities in the calves if their mother's get into it and eat it. Can you see the robin on the neighbors garage roof?