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
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.
…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!
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• 10" x 10" • Lisa Rivas © 2007 • "Feeling"
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
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
…is one of the stock characters
of the Commedia del’Arte, Italian Comedy.
From his ludicrous dress comes the
meaning “particolored”, colored in sections.
The Harlequin Bug is a stinkbug,
dressed in multicolored, fanciful-patterns.
They are of the family of insects called
Pentatomidae, from the Greek words:
pente/five and tomos/sections.
“Arlecchino Stinkbug” e-Stamp
• fused glass – illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Stinkbugs are so named because they secrete a foul-smelling liquid that is repulsive to most predators.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles
and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller
How temporal
your life is
little May Fly…
Today here and
gone tomorrow…
For this you are
called éphémère!
"Éphémère" e-Stamp
• fused "glass – illustration" printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
The lifespan of an adult mayfly can vary from just 30 minutes to one day depending on the species.
It
belongs to the group 1 taxa of pollution–sensitive animals, this means
if mayflies are in or around water. it is good quality water. They are the oldest of the extant (still living) winged insects. Due to their short lifespan they are also called the "day fly" or the "ephemeral fly" in some languages.