Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Valentine

MKW Tulip(Keeping the carbon-footprint small, since this painting by my mother was based on a botanical print. And don’t even get me started on the criminally toxic rose industry, people!)

Update: I am informed that this is a Semper Augustus, which is probably the most famous of tulips. During the infamous Tulipmania, people wanted to spend as much money on a single bulb of this variety as would have purchased a fine house on the best canal in Amsterdam. You can read more about it here. Love is strange.

One response to “Valentine”

  1. Nice to have such a talented mother!

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