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Aloë Vera…

November 17, 2008 · 9 Comments

…is a succulent plant (a cactus at times) that originates from northern Africa.

Due to its interesting flowers, form and succulence it is grown widely
with modern gardeners as an ornamental plant ideal for rockeries
and other gardens of low-water use.

• 18″H x 10″W (diptych) • © Lisa Rivas • “Tips” & “Bottoms”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

Also considered a medicinal plant and a natural health support.
The
transparent gel from the pulp of it’s meaty leaves is used to treat
wounds, skin infections, burns, and numerous other skin conditions.
Dried latex from the inner lining of the leaf has been used as an oral
laxative.

The effectiveness of aloe skin-care products is uncertain.

An evening bloomer…

November 10, 2008 · 13 Comments

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

The Art of Balance

November 4, 2008 · 2 Comments

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.

Awns…

October 16, 2008 · 2 Comments

…are the long "bristlelike" projections
on the seeds of wheat, oats and grasses.

They play a role in the dispersal
of seeds in the air and the actual
planting of them in the ground!

Wheat FEEL

The awns feel the changes in humidity
and this leads to their bending.
This bending helps them push
the seed along. By bending back
and forth upon feeling these
slight changes in humidity
they accomplish the digging,
the pushing and then in
the final burial of the seed down
a few inches into the soil!
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. Simone Weil

A secret holding…

September 25, 2008 · 2 Comments

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

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

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