Birdwoman

We are almost finished moving, but I have just begun nesting!  Charley has never seen this domestic side of me before and appears to be deeply amused.  Speaking of nesting and birds, there are certain hazards involved when moving furniture with a pickup truck:
Awesome.

My bean plants are apparently on steroids.  I had this jumbo string bean for snack today: 
Just when I think that I'm thoroughly exaggerating the plants in my painting, their real-life counterparts grow bizarrely and one-up my imagination.

Usually I lay my big paintings on the floor and sit on them while I'm working, but yesterday I was painting with this piece propped up against the wall.  I was sitting really close to it, with a view kind of like this: and I had the feeling that I was about to fall right into the bean forest.  So yay, it worked!                

I also added more moths including these guys:

And this great horned owl:


And here's a full view.  My student, Liv, who's eleven, suggested I move the big luna moth off his former leaf-perch, and let him fly in space.  She's so smart.  I think I'll try lowering him a bit more tomorrow to give him even more room.