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Pepper Pattern

3/2/2015

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Chilean Pepper Tree Design, Tara Gill
Chilean Pepper Tree, Design by Tara Gill
This tree know many names including: Peruvian pepper (Schinus molle, also known as American pepper, Peruvian peppertree, escobilla, false pepper, molle del Peru, pepper tree,peppercorn tree, Californian pepper tree, pirul and Peruvian mastic (source Wikipedia)
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Allo Aloe

2/15/2015

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Aloe Ferox, Photo & Design by Tara Gill
Aloe Vera, flowers and leaves.
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Cayenne Pepper Design

2/9/2015

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Something to keep you warm...

Cayenne Peppers, ripe and ripening.Photo and design by Tara Gill
Cayenne Peppers, ripe and ripening.
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Wisteria Pods Designs, Green & Brown

12/9/2014

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Botanical Design with a Twist

Fresh Green Wisteria Pods Design
Green, fresh wisteria pods
Dried and Spiraled Wisteria Seed Casing, Tara Gill
Dried and Spiraled Wisteria Seed Casing

Wisteria Facts of Interest

Wisteria vines climb by twining their stems either clockwise or counterclockwise. The world's largest known Wisteria vine is in Sierra Madre, California, measuring more than 1 acre (0.40 ha) in size and weighing 250 tons. Planted in 1894, it is of the Chinese lavender variety. The seeds are poisonous. -Source Wikipedia
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Control and happiness

12/8/2014

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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
I'm noticing how much my mind believes that if others do what I want them to do, I will be happy, so I wanted to point the flashlight on that idea in this weeks quote. Folly indeed. Yet, it is habitual and human. It comes up most often with my husband and child.

What does your mind tell you you need to control the most?

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. -Stephen R. Covey
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Finding your way

12/1/2014

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If light is in your heart you will find your way home. -Rumi
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New Roads

11/24/2014

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How do you guide yourself down new roads?

There's no maps to guide the human heart down roads we've never been.
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Branches and Roots

11/17/2014

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Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. Rumi, photo by Tara Gill
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Playing with Pattern

11/12/2014

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Aloe Vera Leaves

Aloe Vera Leaves Photo Design
Beginning Form
Aloe Vera Leaves Pattern
Resulting Pattern

Aloe Vera Leaves and Flowers
Beginning Form
Aloe Vera Leaves and Flowers, Pattern
Resulting Pattern
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Red Flowering Gum

11/11/2014

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Eucalyptus ficifolia, photo plant design by Tara Gill
Formerly Eucalyptus ficifolia and now called Corymbia ficifolia is one of the most commonly planted ornamental trees in the broader eucalyptus family. (Source Wikipedia)
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Plant Seeds

11/10/2014

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Don't Judge each day by the harvest your reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

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Playing with Pods

11/6/2014

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Raw Material, seeds still attached to pod

Seeds attached to pod. Pod. Australian Blackwood Tree, acacia melanoxylon.

Green Pod Designs

Pod Design #1 Australian Blackwood Tree, acacia melanoxylon.
Pod Design #2 Australian Blackwood Tree, acacia melanoxylon.
Pod Design #3 Australian Blackwood Tree, acacia melanoxylon.
These pods and seed grouping are made from the Australian Blackwood Tree, acacia melanoxylon.

Indigenous Australians derive an analgesic from the tree. I derive an analgesic too, designing with these pods makes me happy!

It is valued commercially for its highly decorative timber which may be used as a cabinet timber, for musical instruments or in boat building. More on Wikipedia...


Brown Pod Pattern

Brown Pod Pattern, Pod Design  Australian Blackwood Tree, acacia melanoxylon.
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Seeing

11/2/2014

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Picture

Close both eyes to see with the other eye. – Rumi

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Art for Big Spaces

10/28/2014

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Now for Sale at SFMOMA

If you have some big walls to fill and want art that holds space for contemplation, beauty and pattern, these 41" x 41" float mounted images can calm the waters.

Available now at SFMOMA Artist's Gallery in San Francisco.
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Curiosity

10/28/2014

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Quote: The cure for boredom is curiosity. There in no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There in no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
With thanks for the quote to Jill Berry, map-maker and explorer .
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