The stone-fruit trees are flowering at Descanso Gardens, so I went with Urban Sketchers LA, on a chilly morn, to enjoy (and sketch) the display.
While there, I wandered into the California Native garden (designed in the 1950s by legendary nurseryman and native plant advocate Theodore Payne) and saw a ground cover sage that I think would do really well at our place. I believe it’s Salvia Bee’s Bliss — gotta get me some!
I went to the library for a little people-sketching, but my pen ran out of ink after the first guy so this is all I got.
A little corner of our place, where textures soft, scratchy, smooth, rough, flaky and crumbly play nicely together.
I had to while away some time in Santa Monica, so I found a congenial place to sip, sketch, and read.
White Oak Farm is tucked into the northwest corner of Mulholland and Las Virgenes Roads. Once a dairy farm, it’s now part of Malibu Creek State Park, and a ranger lives in the old farmhouse. There are no ‘white oaks’ here, only valley oaks and coast live oaks. The valley oaks have lighter bark than the others, so perhaps that’s where the name came from.
I was back at King Gillette Ranch yesterday with the LA Urban Sketchers, very happy they chose to meet in my neck of the woods this month.
Putting my learnings from Liz Steel’s Buildings course to good use today. Fun Urban Sketching event at the beautiful historic Point Fermin lighthouse in San Pedro.
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