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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Vancouver friends! I'm doing a second nature journal workshop at the China Creek North pollinator meadow! I have 7 FREE art kits available. If you are interested, please register with the email on this poster. We can hang out, draw bugs and I will fill your head with interesting plant facts 🐝🌻📗

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The China Creek North pollinator Meadow is popping off right now! Thanks to all the hard work and help from volunteers, it's become a space really beloved of the community. If you're ever in the northeast corner of Mount Pleasant here in Vancouver, make sure you come by and visit 🌱

Photograph of a hillside with red poppies in the foreground and purple lupines in the background with trees at the top of the hill.

A photo of tall purple, large-leafed Lupines with bright orange, California poppies

A photo of yellow and orange blanket flowers with a small ladybug resting on one of them.

A photo of a small parasitic blood bee on the white and yellow flowers of Meadowfoam.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just a little Rhamphorhyncus enjoy a fishy snack for fun.

Digital painting of a Rhamphorhyncus pterosaur enjoying a fish while clinging to an orange cliff face casting a long, cool shadow

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I hope you all have some peaceful and stressless holidays! ❤️ My husband and I don't buy each other Christmas gifts. We just buy our own and then pretend the other gave it to us. So I would like to thank @robinbougie.bsky.social with all my heart as visions of prehistoric forests dance in my head🌲🪴

At the top of the image is a red box of 12 gouache paints from Holbein. It is the irodori Autumn set. In the center of the image is a book called The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants. It has a beige cover with images of cycads and conifers.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Late summer at the boulevard garden. As a shoe-box apartment dweller, I'm so grateful to have the privilege of caring for a tiny patch of Earth to help decompress from the day and world events 🌱

A photo of a street receding in the distance with a brick building on the left that the sun is glinting off of. In the foreground is a garden of weedy looking native plants.

In the foreground are yellow flowers called Sneezeweed ( Helenium autumnale) There is an out of focus urban building in the background against a blue sky.

A close up of purple daisy-like flowers with yellow centers of Douglas Aster.

A fuzzy Common Eastern Bumblebee sleeping while clinging to the underside of a seed capsule of a Western Columbine

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

One of my fav paintings to come out of the Vancouver island art retreat!

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Happiest of birthdays🥳 my true love @robinbougie.bsky.social He is my best friend, he makes me laugh constantly, he is a supportive team player and the best human I've ever met ( our nicknames for each other is Frog and Bear) 🐸🐻

A cartoon drawing of a brown bear in overalls and a green frog wearing a hat and carrying a hose. There are hearts and bees floating around them.

A photo of the most handsome man in the world wearing heart rainbow sunglasses and a pointy birthday hat sitting in a blue chair in the park.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Today's pics from the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are of fuzzy bumblebees and a beewolf. Like the name suggests, the beewolf is a wasp that hunts bees as food for its young. Some of the nectar rockstars right now are Sea Holly, Globe Thistle, Canadian Goldenrod and Yarrow 🌱

A close-up of the spiky, blue Sea Holly flowers with a fuzzy yellow bumblebee near the center enjoying a nectar snack.

Two yellow-faced bumblebees on top of a round, blue flower of a globe thistle

Yellow Goldenrod flowers against a blue sky with many bumblebees searching for nectar.

A black and yellow wasp called a Beewolf on top of a white cluster of yarrow flowers.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Summer evenings in the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are magical. As the sun sets over this east-facing hillside it illuminates the tops of the plants and reveals thousands of pollinators as pinpoints of light zipping around as they travel from flower to flower. 🌱

This image is a close up of a white yarrow flower head with a small, dark leaf-cutter bee on top.

The sun glows on the horizon through the flowers and foliage of a Sea Holly and a Russian Sage plant. The sky is bright blue.

A blue globe thistle plant that is being backlit by the Sun with golden grass at the bottom of the screen.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Took out the microscope to look at some small purple Nepeta or Catmint flowers and buds. You can see the glistening pockets of fragrant oils on the bud that gives it that sage/mint smell. Fortunately the cats couldn't care less about this plant as I'm growing many cuttings on our balcony. 🌱

A very close up image of a Catmint flowers bud that is covered in hairs . You can see small, glistening beads of oil pockets on the surface.

Microscopic view of the side of a fuzzy, purple Catmint flower with a dark stamen screen right.

Extreme close up of dark purple stamens with white pollen.

An extreme close up of a side view of a purple Catmint flower.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Took the bus up to Whistler. We had a great time exploring the turquoise blue glacial lakes and streams. We walked through a grove of trees where bears like to sharpen in their claws 🐻 (and leave behind big poops).

A shot of a beautiful turquoise colored glacial lake called Lost Lake with snow-capped mountains in the background.

Close up of glistening water rolling over a tree branch and the camera lens made all the sparkles different colors.

Shot of a wetland area amongst a forest of trees with a couple of trees in the foreground. The photo doesn't capture the hundreds of dragonflies darting back and forth.

Close up of a blotchy gray tree trunk with dark vertical scratches caused by a bear sharpening its claws.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Mountain botanizing! Pacific Coral Root (Corallorhiza mertensiana) a parasitic orchid that doesn't photosynthesize or produce roots. The Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata) is a partial myco-heterotroph. Then our native Columbia Lily (Lilium columbianum) and Sickletop Lousewort (Pedicularis racemosa)🌱

A close-up of the pink seed pods of the Pacific coral root orchid. The flowers have faded.

A close up of the nodding pale pink flowers of the Pipsissewa plant with an out of focus forced background.

Close up of a beautiful orange Columbia Lily flower

The interesting twisted pale pink flowers of the sickletop lousewort with a few leaves.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

As the Phacelia fades in the pollinator garden, the Clarkia blooms and becomes the star of the show. One of my favorite things about this PNW native flower is how every plant has a different pink color scheme, but also how the Leaf-cutter bees cut notches out of the petals to use in their nests 🌱🐝🌸

A down shot of an area of wildflowers. Orange California poppies and pink clarkia also with blue globe gilia and bird's eye gilia.

A close-up of a Clarkia flower that is light pink with dark pink markings on the inside pedal.

A shot of Clarkia flowers that are dark pink with a light pink inner edge of the petal

A red and pink Clarkia flower where the petals have been cut by leaf-cutter bees. They carry the petal pieces to their nests to make a home for their babies.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Parkbus is a service that helps us car-less city dwellers get out into nature. They had a special deal for only $30 round trip from Vancouver to the Othello Tunnels in the Coquihalla Canyon and also the town of Hope, which leans into the fact it's the filming location for the Rambo movie First Blood

A shot from inside a large tunnel carved out of solid granite. Looking on to the entrance of two other tunnels in the distance.

A river that is bending around a large rock wall covered in Douglas Fir trees. There are mountains in the background.

A shot of a fast flowing river flowing through a steep rock canyon wall.

A wooden statue of Sylvester Stallone as Rambo in the movie First Blood.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

After removing over 200 invasive blackberries and a metric ton of Reed Canarygrass, the public pollinator garden that we took stewardship over last year is really starting to come into its own. Special thanks to the volunteers that help make it happen 🌱

The blue flower in the foreground is called Cupid's Dart. The yellow daisy-like flowers in the mid ground are Woolly Sunflowers. There are the seed heads of Meadow Brome grass falling in from the left hand corner.

This is a shot of a field of wild flowers with trees and a building against the sky in the background. The purple flowers are called Lacey Phacelia. There are also red poppies, blue gilia, bird's eye gilia and California Poppy in bloom.

An orange and black painted lady butterfly on a pale pink yarrow flower with strands of grass in the foreground.

A wide shot of a pollinator garden in a public park with a paved zigzag path.

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It wasn't a huge turn out here in Vancouver, but what we lacked in size we made up for in passion and intensity! #fuckfascism

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The flowers of the Sarracenia, also known as North American Pitcher Plants are my absolute favorite. They are so elegant and graceful for a plant that devours insects for a living 🌱

Bright yellow-green flowers with a lot of dangly bits hang their heads in a dark background.

The orange red flowers of the North American pitcher plant hang their heads on tall stems in front of a dark background with a lighter balcony railing at the bottom.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A large Edmontosaurus regalis is giving the side-eye to a young Tyrannosaurus. Rex that's just passing by.

Digital painting of a large edmontosaurus dinosaur with a pale yellow background. In the foreground is a dark young Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A large mosasaur finds a meal in a Komoksodon kwutchakuth. Named in honour of the K'ómoks people of BC and the word for shark, kwutchakuth, in the Comox language. The diving birds are Maaqwi cascadensis whose fossils were found on Hornby Island here in BC. Ma'aqwi means "water bird" in Coast Salish.

A digital painting depicting an ancient underwater predator called a mosasaur with a shark in its mouth. The ocean is blue, however red blood is coming out of the shark's mouth. A school of small fish are eating the blood while diving aquatic birds hunt after the fish. Rays of sunshine filter through the water screen right.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hello Vancouver iNat users! The China Creek Pollinator Garden is now an iNat project: China Creek Park Pollinator Garden 2025. Which means any observations of insects (and other invertebrates), birds, mammals and plants will be recorded and we can demonstrate the importance of urban green spaces.

An area of a map that is blocked in showing the parameters of the iNaturalist project at the China Creek North Pollinator Garden.

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J.W. Kirby @jaywkirby.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

New painting! Featuring a pod of Stenopterygius

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

There's not much I can do about the state of the world, but one thing I can do is to get people to look at more bugs. I'll be handing out bee-ingo cards while working in the Pollinator Garden once the flowers are up. If you get four in a row you get a sticker.

A bingo card with a grid and inside each box is a digital painting representing a pollinator found in Vancouver.

A digital painting of a bumblebee in the center of a clarkia flower. There are other insects such as an inchworm an ant and a ladybug on the flower. It's on a blue background with a rainbow and the text reads "love the bugs,grow native of plants"

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Found Footage Festival @foundfootagefest.com · 15/03/2025

Shaturday Morning Cartoons - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs with @rebdart.bsky.social 🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕🦖🦕 youtube.com/live/A12SOwV...

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Shaturday Morning Cartoons - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A selection of paintings available in my online store: www.laurabifano.com/shop

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I'm taking a look at the Rhynie Chert again, so I made a quick size chart of the plants I've already illustrated from it. These plants are some of the earliest land #plants, being from the Early #Devonian. From left to right: Asteroxylon, Horneophyton and Aglaophyton. #paleoart #paleobotany #sciart

Three primative plants on a size chart. On the left is a green thick stemmed plant with horizontal stems which curve upwards, with branded tuberous roots growing down. Behind it is the pale silhouette of a hand. Middle is a plant composed of dense intertwining clusters of narrow dichotomising stems. A callout bubble showing the roots is on the left of it. On the right is a green stemmed plant with outh curved arching horizontal stems and upright dichotomising stems which end in orange brown oval shaped sporangia.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Seeing the first spring Bumble Queen with pollen all over her face has helped suppress the existential dread for at least a moment.

A large, fuzzy, black and pale yellow bumblebee in the center of a purple and white crocus flower.

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Rine @rine-nell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hey ! Merci pour l'artshare 💕 Je m'appelle Rine et je fais des fleurs en papier crépon 💐

Photo de 3 zinnias rose framboise en papier crépon

Photo d’une branche de 6 fleurs de pois de senteur (rose et blanc) en papier crépon

Photo d'une branche d'églantier, il y a 4 roses blanches avec un cœur jaune.

Photo d'un hortensia paniculé rose et blanc en papier crépon

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's to @robinbougie.bsky.social Over 30 years of marriage he is my rock and the most wonderful person I've ever met. His strengths are my weaknesses and vice versa, we are stronger together than apart. Our sappy pet names for each other are Tender Bear 🐻 (that's me) and Sweet Frog🐸

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Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Will get up early tomorrow (wed) and go live with pre-orders for the FIRST volume of my brand new book series, SONIC SEWER! It's packed with music trivia, reviews, unusual stories from my own life, and SHITLOADS of amazing art! This might be the best thing I've ever done. cinemasewer.storenvy.com

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Wowsers! Thank you for all the new follows 😃 I really appreciate each and everyone of you. I'm hoping 2025 will offer me more time to post personal art. I've also been busy taking the Vancouver Master Gardeners course, which is through the Van Dusen Botanical Garden. It's been a nice distraction 💚🌿

In the foreground are the green glossy leaves of an evergreen Magnolia with a pink seed head in the middle. In the background there is the head of Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur in the shadows with a golden highlight.

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Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I've got a new book coming out next month - all about how prehistoric plants changed the world - and I'd love for it to bloom wildly when it comes out. Pre-orders make a massive difference, so please consider ordering a physical, ebook, or audio copy, and asking for it from your favorite library 🌱

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When the Earth Was Green

Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024 A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding relationship between prehistoric plants and life on EarthFossils plants...

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 13/01/2025

Fleeing Facebook and Instagram? Discover one of the best corners of Bluesky: the SciArt Feed 🐡. 🎨 Hundreds of artists 🧪 Science-focused ✅ Curated contributors 🥳 No NFTs or gen AI Like & pin it today:

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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 17/01/2025

Choices on Bluesky go beyond reactionary politics and anger farming. With the SciArt Starter Pack, get thought-provoking images from over 100 selected artists engaged in science. Plus, add the popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to your skyline. ✨And no AI images.✨ #medsky #academicsky 🧪 🎨 #illustration

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Finished January of the China Creek North pollinator garden phenology wheel. The dandelion leaf represents the nice lady that gathers them for her pet bunny. Since the weather has been so unseasonably warm many lupine sprouts are popping up through the dead stems and seed pods.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Personally 2024 was a tough year. Both of my parents passed away, another family member is struggling with terminal cancer. There is still so much to be grateful for; friends, family, my husband and the little things in life. Everyday on this side of the grass is a good day. Cheers 🥂

Close up of a rainbow with a small bird in flight center screen.

Water droplets in the center of emerging star-like lupine leaves.

Close up of the seed pods of the silver dollar plant.

A shot of a grassy hillside with a path with snowy mountains in the background. A husband is pulling up weeds in the mid ground.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A study in 2014 points to much of the ice-age megafauna having had diets high in nutrient rich flowering plants. Of course flowering plants need pollinators, Mason bees, bumblebees and leafcutter bees most likely provided those services. The large and small interconnected in a complex relationship.

A digital painting of yellow Arctic poppies, pink Arctic willow and white Mountain Avens flowers in the foreground. An out of focus mammoth is grazing screen right, you can only see its tusks and trunk. There is a snowy mountain in the background against a blue sky with clouds.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Just imagine the sound of the rain blooping on the lake water while ravens croak in the distance. One of the great things about this gray, rainy Vancouver weather is that Stanley park is very quiet. It also really brings out the cool fungus.

A grey, winter day on a small lake with conifer trees in the background shrouded in mist. There is a short dock in the lower left hand corner.

An upshot of the large evergreen tree with a big growth in the lower part of the image.

A close up of white staghorn fungus growing amongst the moss and dead leaves.

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hallopus victor - A #jurassic crocodylomorph from the Morrison Formation. #paleoart #sciart #croc

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Heitor Miguel @paleomiguel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Forest Interior with Jinzhousaurus. Miguel, 1924. My last piece of the year, inspired by Ludvig Munthe's 1870 painting "Forest Interior". #paleoart #hadrosaur #sciart

A winter scene of a forest, with the chinese hadrosaur Jinzhousaurus on the middle of the composition. On the backround, the forest is illuminated by some mysterious source.

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H. Pettijohn @punkpaleo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Aenocyon dirus skull (digital painting) #paleoart

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) is a common and widespread native wildflower across N. America. It is an important host plant for the Painted Lady butterfly 🦋 and bees 🐝 adore it. It's perfect for sunny dry areas. It's named for its pearly sheen and it makes an excellent dried flower.

A digital painting of white flowers called pearly everlasting. They have dark orange centers and the flowers are on a pale green background.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Common sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale) is the worst common name for this beautiful flower. It doesn't make you sneeze, but was used as a snuff. A native to the Pacific Northwest it is perfectly adapted to our wet Winters and dry Summers. It is also an absolute native bee magnet 🧲🐝

A digital painting of a bright yellow Daisy like flower on a dark background.

A photo of wildflowers in the foreground including yarrow, pearly everlasting, asters and sneezeweed. The light is hitting the top of the flowers and there is a brick and stone building in the background.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Hello Vancouver friends! A fellow Green Street Gardener is no longer able to care for this established roundabout garden at 8th and Blenheim. There is a nearby water source. If you're interested you can apply through here: vancouver.ca/home-propert...

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Last spring I commissioned my father-in-law to build me a flower press. I like making these bookmarks with pressed flowers, leaves and weeds that I collected throughout the summer. The color is added by using tissue paper. It's nice to have a little artistic hobby with low stakes.

Bookmarks laid out in two rows made with real pressed flowers and colorful tissue paper. With a grotty tea towel in the background.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In a rare occurrence of not having any freelance to do in the morning (I'm up between 4 and 5 a.m.) is a perfect time for a quick study. This is the Western Red Columbine (Aquilegia formosa) that bloomed at my streetside garden garden in Spring. Hummingbirds love it!

Digital painting of a red western Columbine flower on a dark background.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

There is beauty in the pollinator garden year round and early winter is no exception.

A close up of a cluster of beige, fluffy seeds of the Goldenrod plant.

A close up of a spent Shasta daisy seed head where some of the seeds have started to sprout and they are small green plants.

Brown, dried yarrow seed heads with blurry buildings in the background.

A light green caterpillar at the very end of a stick with a blurry background.

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