The Caribbean Applecactus has sweetly scented and beautiful night-blooming flowers.
When planted en masse its hundreds of flowers present a rare sight all through the night.
Also it's fruit is a great attraction as food for birds, many of whom are ravenously fond of the seeds!
• 10" x 10" • © Lisa Rivas • "Applecactus"
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
Mary C. Crowley
A wise old owl sat in an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
Edward Hersey Richards (b. 1874)
original painting – artist collection – Nashville, TN – USA – "Atonement"
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, then quilted! • 38"H x 60"W • © Lisa Rivas
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
balance
• 10" x 10" • © Lisa Rivas • "Balance"
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind;
it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
Balance is a stable state characterized by the cancellation of all forces by equal opposing forces.
The Nopal Cactus originates and is native to Mexico.
Nopal is the root of Mexico City's Aztec name ‘Tenochtitlan’ meaning "place of the cactus".
It has been serving mankind as a staple food and healing plant for thousands of years.
Of the genus Opuntia from the Cactaceae family and also known as the Prickly Pear Cactus.
• watercolor, wax on ricepaper • © Lisa Rivas • "Nopales"
The term Nopalitos refers to the Nopal pads once they have been cut up and prepared for eating.
Following Candied Nopalitos!
Absence of occupation is not rest; "a mind quite vacant" is a mind in distress!
William Cowper
original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – "Heads or Tales?"
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, then quilted! • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment,
other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw