Oy, msbelle!

Does anybody think I will be bending the 'clear foods' rule if I include a couple jellybeans (as long as they're not red or pink or purple, which has dreaded DYE in them), as they're virtually pure sugar?

I want to eat it, not just ingest the style, I need to work through it, identify the pictures that achieve what I want to work on ... where he has the darkest plane in the middle of the picture, and that's often where the centre of focus is.

You might want to take a look at Norman Lindsay and Roy Krenkel. I've watched Roy work out the layout of a drawing by starting with the center focus in some detail, then drawing outlines of the rest of the pieces to work out the balance of light and dark. (Then he'd fill page after page of sketches of bits of the drawing he was convinced he hadn't perfected, pulling out references and muttering things like, "Remington got wagon wheels, damn it. How did he do it?")

theo, why not just sugar water?

ION the sentence "what kind of drunk ass wagon circus is this" is stuck in my head. from where no idea. my brain is like a merry go round things just get stuck there.

I had spray-painted the old allium seedheads silver in what I was trying to make my moon garden a couple of weeks ago. I've been seeing visitors taking pictures of them! I've also been getting visitors asking what the heck they were and if they were naturally silver.

Because I am a jerk, and I've just trained my interns to use the engraver and for the first time in years have been able to start labeling plants again, I got it in my head that I should label the painted plants.

I brainstormed with a regular visitor. The first label we came up with was

Allium silvestrum pictum Silvered Moon Orbs

Apparently the "pict" part means paint in latin.

Then later she came up with the brilliant idea to name them "Juled Caprice" because I had joked that I should've given them a cultivar name. And, well, there are actually four or five different alliums that I used. So that's both our names --we were joking about how she was a pioneer in the hort world with discovering and naming a new plant.

I also figure that if I give enough fake and differing names, people will get the joke even if they don't know latin.

I'm glad I told my ED of my evil scheme, because even he had no clue if it was natural or not.

Methinks I should write something up for the website so it's more above-boards and not an asshole move. Maybe kind of a jokey "new plants discovered at ___!" and go into moon gardens and night pollinators and the sculptures on the grounds (the one right next to the moon garden is silver, hence my chosen colour).

I'm going to Kilimanjaro in January

Ooh! That's exciting!

I also figure that if I give enough fake and differing names, people will get the joke even if they don't know latin.

Nah. People will totally believe it's real.

I'm going to Kilimanjaro in January

Wow! That will be an amazing trip!

So maybe I need a label that is more obvious?

Rustoleum Silver Flowering Onion Allium pseudo-silvum?

Allium fakus paintus?

Wow! That will be an amazing trip!

Yeah. I'm really excited, but also kind of terrified. 19,000 feet, forsooth. I had enough trouble in Cuzco, which is... damn, only 11,000 ft asl. I've got to get a prescription for diamox, that's for sure.

I've got an old book written by a woman who lived in Kenya in the 60s and 70s who describes the grief suffered by people climbing Kilimanjaro. The altitude sickness was apparently horrific.