This beautiful package
is wrapped in green!
It emerges, it grows…
Then it slightly opens
and presents something!
That feeds, that nurtures…
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And sometimes these
little nurturing gems spark!
Into gifts of verdant life…

 • 10″ x 10″ • Lisa Rivas © 2007 • “Pod”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

To see things in the seed, that is genius. Lao Tzuhen

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better.
Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. Florida Scott-Maxwell

…have the ability to use atmospheric nitrogen to produce their own protein compounds.
Legumes are a good source of fiber, protein, iron, folic acid, and B vitamins.

 • 10″ x 10″ • Lisa Rivas © 2007 • “Seeds”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

15 bean soup is comprised of fifteen kinds of beans,
and has a history that goes back to over a century in the United States.
These are the beans: NORTHERN PINTO, LARGE LIMA, BLACKEYE, GARBANZO, BABY LIMA, GREEN SPLIT PEA, KIDNEY, SMALL WHITE BEAN, CRANBERRY BEAN, PINK BEAN, SMALL RED BEAN, YELLOW SPLIT PEA, LENTIL, NAVY BEAN, WHITE KIDNEY BEAN, BLACK BEAN, PEARL BARLEY