Flora

I do have a hobby, damnit! Tyler bugs me all the time - you need to get a hobby, you need to start doing something. Then he looked at the plants all over the house. I guess you do have a hobby. Uh, yeah!

Back in CA, I was inspired. 

A little curiousity shop tucked away in the Mission. Flora and fauna and natural artifacts. I've been trying to find a good way to experiment with these little wonders ever since. 

A few years later, I am finally working on this project! Found bags of shells at Christmas Tree Shoppes for $8 each! Must be 5lbs of shells in each bag! While I cant use them all, most of them are perfect vessels for my little creatures. 

 

             

They even hang! Tyler is quite brilliant when it comes to solving problems. You'd never know there's a little button inside there keeping everything together on a string.

                            

Felt a little primitave gutting this little sea star

One of the greatest compliments Tyler has given me in our lifetime is saying how professional they all looked and how impressed he was in the outcome. Thank you!!! 

Uh, the baby had a baby

Tyler ordered another ukelele - and they sent him a baritone uke. And he wanted one anyway, so it was a Great Magnet mistake that wasn't really a mistake...

And now we have two Uke babies

New strings

Tyler texted me and said he was going to buy a ukelele. When I asked him why he was inspired to buy this petite string, he said - because my banjo asked for a little brother!

So now we display strings as art. Living museum kind of style.

Tyler is also making the super loving strides to learn my favorite song first. 
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole's version of Over the Rainbow. Very special to us.
Very special  that Tyler is working on this song to play for us.
Hands off ladies, this fine gentleman is MINE O'Mine! 

Shallot problems.

                                                                                    

                                              Healthy looking shallot chives.

               Loonng chives!

               Must be time to dig them up, right?

Why do our shallots look like fingers? Where are our shallots? Were we not supposed to dig them up yet? The chive shoots are 3 feet tall!

dirty fingers. indoor dirt diggin'