We are a family of four++ generations that celebrate the outdoors.
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See the Daffodils return in the Spring?
Daffodils and Tulips are perennial bulbs and will come back each year.
The purpose of Botanical-Kids is to appreciate the natural world and encourage
future generations to love nature too.
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The Shasta Daisies and Stargazer Lilies return to the garden each year as they too, are perennials.
My mother learned about plants from her mother, Emily. When outside they would both point at plants "Look at the Maple Trees, the Hydrangeas and the Forsythia. See how the daffodils come back each year and the damn bittersweet and trumpet vines, though beautiful, are choking things out!?"
"Look in the water, do you see shells, seaweed and crabs?" With joy, I am repeating the encouragement to appreciate and get to know the natural world with my children and grandchildren. Join-us and appreciate the Botanical-Kids in all of us!
Erica Lindberg Mitchell is a resident of Stonington, CT, who offers group and private classes in oils, watercolors, pastels and Photoshop. She has a Masters in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University. and under graduate from Kenyon College.
Erica teaches painting in her Stonington studio and enjoys pattern making and awakening the joy of creativity in others. She has been teaching art classes in Stonington since 2013, including at Avondale Arts in Watch Hill, RI, and offers private classes in Stonington.
Through her business Stonington Originals, she combines her interests and abilities in the traditional and digital arts, with her love of painting and photography being both a hobby and part of her professional work.
So Erica Lindberg is both a working artist and an art educator in Stonington, with expertise spanning traditional painting techniques and digital design.
"Look in the water, do you see shells, seaweed and crabs?" With joy, I am repeating the encouragement to appreciate and get to know the natural world with my children and grandchildren. Join-us and appreciate the Botanical-Kids in all of us!
Erica Lindberg Mitchell is a resident of Stonington, CT, who offers group and private classes in oils, watercolors, pastels and Photoshop. She has a Masters in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University. and under graduate from Kenyon College.
Erica teaches painting in her Stonington studio and enjoys pattern making and awakening the joy of creativity in others. She has been teaching art classes in Stonington since 2013, including at Avondale Arts in Watch Hill, RI, and offers private classes in Stonington.
Through her business Stonington Originals, she combines her interests and abilities in the traditional and digital arts, with her love of painting and photography being both a hobby and part of her professional work.
So Erica Lindberg is both a working artist and an art educator in Stonington, with expertise spanning traditional painting techniques and digital design.
Look at the Lupines in June
Grand Ma Mandy, (my mom) planted a few Lupines several years ago -
and they have spread naturally to cover more than two acres of hilly fields!
and they have spread naturally to cover more than two acres of hilly fields!
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My grandmother and mother shared an appreciation for all growing things. I always felt special and relaxed when we walked outside and they told me the names of plants around us. This is a nasturtium...you can eat the flowers. Marigolds keep the slugs away.... Aspirin is made from willow roots. See the daffodils return every spring. |
REMEMBER
Poetry and flowers. As a kid, I was inspired by the Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson from his book "A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES". My mother's grandmother had given her the book in 1941 and it features the illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith. |
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The more you experience nature the more you feel part of the universe and connected to all things. |
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THE FLOWERS
All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames-- These must all be fairy names! Tiny woods below whose boughs Shady fairies weave a house; Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme, Where the braver fairies climb! Fair are grown-up people's trees, But the fairest woods are these; Where, if I were not so tall, I should live for good and all. |
Poem THE FLOWERS by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jessie Wilcox Smith artwork shared through The Project Gutenberg free use License.
Jessie Wilcox Smith artwork shared through The Project Gutenberg free use License.
Botanical-Kids
Stonington, CT. 06378
[email protected]
www.lindbergdesigns.com
We hope you love plants and animals too!
Stonington, CT. 06378
[email protected]
www.lindbergdesigns.com
We hope you love plants and animals too!
