#planted marigolds in it

[lindamarieansonsnaps]

Marigolds

[toyourliking]

Did a bit of gardening and now I feel less insane 😌

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Merry Golds

Watercolor On Birch Panel

2023, 24"x 36"

Mexican Marigolds, Tagetes erecta

Private Collection

[hellsitegenetics]

i love genetics. All animals are pretty much the same, and each genus adds more adventure to our growing zoology books.

Animals are great, and deserve our love support and respect,

have a lovely day,

the great and mysterious weirdo on the internet.

String identified:

gtc. A aa a tt c t a, a ac g a at t gg g .

Aa a gat, a t a ct,

a a a,

t gat a t t tt.

Closest match: Calendula officinalis genome assembly, chromosome: 9 Common name: Marigold

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 3 July 2024

The two annuals Calendula officinalis 'Neon' (pot marigold) and Orlaya grandiflora (white laceflower) were creating a show in a bed adjacent to the wildflower meadow of Great Dixter, Sussex, providing an additional food source for pollinators.

Jill Raggett

[pastelcl0udy]

🪙☀️

[tellnovision]

Marigolder

[ancientstarrydynamo]

Marigold

[firstlawcedarprairie]

Trailing ice plant (Fig marigold)

[highlynerdy]

"Aithusa has seen her father's mate in his memories and smelled him on her father's skin when he comes to visit, but this is the first time she gets to meet him for herself."

Nepenthe and Lavender by @0hheytherebigbadwolf

My latest fanARTifact is an entirely handlettered, handbound, and illustrated book of this beautifully fluffy fic (and it has actually been in various states of progress since March 1, 2021.) More below the cut!

So as I said above, I actually started planning this fic over two years ago. Which, yeah, I don't really want to talk about because adhd is a hell of a thing. I love love love this fic (and this entire series) and I was inspired by The Black Hours and other gorgeous manuscripts with metallic on black paper.

I ordered some black paper from Canson for the text block, used Arabic gold finetec paint mixed with water and gum arabic as my ink (I used three pans of the gold paint...), and a Nikko G nib with a straight pen holder for the calligraphy. I really wanted to use one of my broad tip nibs, but I just couldn't my Uncial letters small enough with it. I used Uncial since that was technically the alphabet/font they used in the Arthurian time period.

The paper was cut down and folded into signatures of three and then I drew out light pencil lines for the text and for the margins. Every single letter was done sooooo slooowwllly because if I messed up on one page there was no way to erase it, which meant I would have to do basically four pages worth of lettering again since they were all connected.

And I did mess up.

More than once.

I think the most heartbreaking mistake was at the very end when I was trying to erase my pencil lines and I just ripped a page completely in half. The tears were real, folks.

Once I finished lettering - which took hours and hours and hours over many weeks - it was time to assemble the text block and sew it. I used gold silk thread I had leftover from Arthur's scarf (which is also used as the backdrop for the photo shoot) to sew the block together and I love how it gives just another little peek of gold to the book.

I painted the end papers in a vaguely floral pattern with the same gold and also some silver finetec paint, glued them all together and put them in my book press and then promptly didn't work on it again from October 2022 to July 2023. Sigh.

But once I committed to getting it done, I asked @swanfloatieknight to help be my accountabilibuddy and make sure I finished it this week. I tested out so many different cover designs, from fabric and thread, to paper, to finally settling on this all over design done by my cricut. Historically accurate?? Nah. I'm about as historically accurate as BBC Merlin.

I tried my hand at gold foiling and that was a disaster so I just used a gold silk ribbon to give the color a little bit more color. Once it was bound, I painted in a triskelion and Aithusa on a double page spread I left intentionally blank.

And it was finally done!

All in all, I'm pleased with how it turned out. Was it an exercise in patience? Yes. Did I learn a lot? Also yes. Mostly that handlettering an entire fic is madness and also this is far too small to case bind, but I'm a stubborn ass and it was happening regardless.

All total, I probably worked on this for about 50+ hours. It was most definitely a labor of love and I'm so happy that it's finally done.

Thank you for inspiring me to take on such a project by writing such wonderful fics, @0hheytherebigbadwolf! And thank you for everyone who reads these long fanARTifact posts. 💛

[crippled-peeper]

flowers I grew

[gallusrostromegalus]

Winged Bull, based on the Jagdeep Rajput shot that is a contenter for the the 2022 Wildlife Photography awards. It's such a fun shot and was fun to turn into a creature.

I think his name is Undeterred By Marigolds, and he likes fresh vegetables, especially when someone else so kindly grew them for him :)

[yellydany]

butterfly animation🏵️🦋👁️‍🗨️

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Candy Corn

Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper

2024, 9"x 12"

Marigolds, Tagetes erecta

[kojiarakiartworks]

June 2013 KTM Kathmandu Nepal Patan

© KOJI ARAKI Art Works

Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe ：）

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 17 September 2024

In this vegetable garden these Calendula officinalis (common marigold, goldins, Mary's gold, pot marigold, Scotch marigold) plants provide a slash of colour and a food source for pollinators. This fast growing annual or biennial has aromatic leaves and long succession of flowers from summer into the autumn until the first frosts.

Jill Raggett