#catchingup

just watched Catching Up by LS Mark , it was actually pretty good :D

Hey buddy I just watch that >:(

Thanks for all the well wishes!

Hey man, I'm gonna be in town for a couple of days. I was hoping we could put some sudden, undue pressure on this already unstable friendship. Let me know.

My parents took us to all kinds of natural wonders when we were kids. One park, Callaway Gardens, was a frequent stop in my Georgia childhood. They had magnolia trees to scale, squirrels to chase, a lake to swim in, and--best of all--a giant butterfly garden. A huge glass room filled to the brim with monarch butterflies, eating sweet bananas and fluttering overhead like magic. I have patchy memories of interpretive signage and guides telling us about these sharply bedecked orange-and-black creatures: I learned about aposematic signaling from their bright colors, as well as Batesian mimicry--they tasted so bad to birds, that other butterflies mimicked them in appearance to gain the defense. Once when one landed on my hand to "lick" off some errant soda I'd spilled earlier, it was like a kiss from a wild thing--and I resolved to repeat the spill whenever I came back.⠀ ⠀ Their erratic orange magic continued outside the glass building--at home, at school, wandering through meadows at church, fluttering through my mother's garden. Monarchs, everywhere, all over the place, common as clouds. They were a constant presence in my Southern childhood. ⠀ ⠀ When I see one now, it is with the nostalgic delight of meeting an old friend--tempered by a sorrow I can't quite put into words. According to the Center for Biological Diversity, monarchs have declined in my part of the world by more than 80% in the last two decades. This tracks with my anecdotal observations of seeing them less and less often over the years, even though I spend much of my time outside--alignment between the big and small pictures. A once everyday sight, increasingly rare. ⠀ ⠀ Since I struggle with capturing the sorrow in my own words, I will borrow those of William Beebe:⠀ ⠀ "...when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."⠀ ⠀ #monarchbutterfly #acrylic #painting #art #illustration #monarch #habitatloss #climatechange #reflection #fiveyearsold #30years #30paintings #catchingup #butterfly #butterflybushes #flowers #gardens #colors #biodiversity #hopeforbetter https://www.instagram.com/p/CRlfOy5jjon/?utm_medium=tumblr

Had a blast catching up with friends tonight! Thanks for coming down, @raycupcake ! Great to see you, as always. . #friends #catchingup #weekend #weekendvibes #saturdayvibes #chilling #chillvibes #hangingwithmypeeps #hangout #growth #growthmindset🌱 #girlpower #niceafternoon☀️ #lovelyevening #goodnight #reminiscence #nostalgia #memories💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/CPe4QWOrCSZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

So I guess you could say I've been a bit busy. Life kinda got in the way, but I'm back now and I'll be posting more up as I scan them in. #myottawa #igersottawa #instaottawa #coloringbook #wherethereisadreamthereisafuture #practicemakesprogress #doitfortheprocess #artistssupportingartists #hacktheflow #poweredbycaffee #flowreach #ottawaartist #icad2020 #collageart #woodcanvas #catchingup #artinthetimeofcorona #covidart #psychedelicart #robot #patternartist #bagels #artiststudio #artgoals #linework #guache #artexperiment #artprint #wallart #emergingartist (at Ottawa Capital Of Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGde8IrFURb/?igshid=1806cpcyn1na3