Hi everyone, well, I did it. I pulled the plug on the custom URL and pro plan and went to the much more affordably priced hosting. I think everything should be the same for existing members. Let me know if y'all run into any issues and I'll look into them as soon as I can. For the next few days, I'll be catching up on everything that went undone for the past week. I've been dealing with a snowball of things that had to be done without delay and it was sort of like throwing everything else I'd been working on up into the air far enough to stay up for a week or so. Now all those things are coming down and I'd better get ready to catch them, lol. Weeds are beginning to rally a mutiny in my garden, too, and rain is on the way that will give fuel to that fire. I'll be back soon!

I added a thin yellow layer to my owl painting. If you're interested in the thinking that goes on behind a painting (or at least the thinking *I'm* doing while making one, lol), I have a blog post. It also gives the color sources I used: https://www.wildozark.com/essence-of-sunlight/

They're blooming now! I put the video in the course (Classroom tab), but here's a pic:

Moonlit predawn view from our porch. Way over there beyond the creek, I can hear the first whippoorwill of the season. Sorry this couldn’t pick up the sound. One will come closer soon, though and I’ll record again 🥰

Also in that first plant walk, there is one that caught my curiosity but I didn't know what it was. This one was hard to nail down an identity. But found enough clues and an answer, finally! Click on the image to see the label - tall rattlesnake root. Couldn't find much on historical or current use, but Native Americans made a poultice for rattlesnake bites from it. these first leaves look different than the later leaves will.