Found Things

Watercolor, 10x15”

A collection of natural findings painted on Kelmscott vellum. Each item represents a little memory from my life: a quiet walk in the woods with my husband, a daughter who thought of me on her way home, a friend who visited my mountain property, an adventure with my sons, spring cleaning my garden, or cleaning out an ant filled bathtub after a child left sugar scrub out.

Like this collection of small fragments of nature, our lives are a collection of little things we find along the way, a memory, a connection, or a kindness, that form a larger whole. I invite you to reflect on how the beauty of the little things in your life come together to make you you.

1-    Indian Rice Grass

2-    Orange Milkweed seed pod

3-    Three Leaf Sumac berries

4-    Small rock

5-    Lichen covered stick

6-    Welsh’s Milkweed leaf

7-    Rocky Mountain Columbine seed pod

8-    Douglas Fir cone

9-    Unknown Bluebird feather

10- Yucca seed pod

11- Blue Eyed Darner dragonfly

12- Sub-Alpine Fir Male cone

13- Big Tooth Maple samaras

14- Biological Soil Crust

15- Northern Flicker feather

16- Quaking Aspen leaf

17- Gambel Oak acorn

18- Two-Tailed Swallowtail

19- Robin’s egg fragment

20- Gambel Oak Leaf

21- Juniper branch with berry

22- Stick with termite tunnels

23- Black Ant/Pavement Ant

24- Woods Rose Hips

25- Unknown Bird skull

26- Bristlecone pinecone

27- Mountain Snail shell

28- Golden Northern Bumblebee

29- Selenite

30- Monument Plant seed pods

31- Sub-Alpine Fir Female cone fragment