Sometimes you need to take pen to paper to help you get over a lost love. And when you are a botanical illustrator, what better way to represent lost love than a drooping Love Lies Bleeding amaranth plant. Beautiful, metaphorical, and cathartic.

Sometimes you need to take pen to paper to help you get over a lost love. And when you are a botanical illustrator, what better way to represent lost love than a drooping Love Lies Bleeding amaranth plant. Beautiful, metaphorical, and cathartic.

I’ve been experimenting with some holiday card designs. This one is available on the Wander & Gather Etsy shop: WanderGather.com

Spring is here! I keep seeing the flowers from my Spring Ephemerals series of cards popping up all over the woods. Buy these cards today in my online shop: www.wandergather.com
Feeling inspired by our “warm” spring weather here in Leelanau County, Michigan, (and a friend’s new gardening business, Sanguinaria Gardens & Designs) I have been messing around with a design for a bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis).
