By Miika Silfverberg (MiikaS) from Vantaa, Finland (Flickr Because I felt I didn't have enough brushes, this little guy's li...

So this is my first attempt at entomological illustration, and I think I'm hooked. I'm just debating on whether I should invest in a...

The Rip, oil/canvas, 30"x40"    Artists for Save the Bay 2011 I guess if I've been blogging so long that bloggable items c...

My digs in Girdwood. I have another post written but blogpress won't let me upload it, so maybe I'll have better luck with this one....

I've been wanting to write this post for a week, but I've almost been afraid to talk about it, because it's just such an amazin...

  Dateline June 10-11, Scituate, RI I'm happy to report that the Rhode Island Natural History Survey Bioblitz 2011 Art Team  (or, as we ...

  Funny, in my two weeks of unexpected time off work with my knee surgery I somehow didn't have the urge to blog much. Was it the lack ...

Ok ...repaired and rejected. My torn menicus (go ahead, ask me about knee anatomy) has been neatened up and my knee should be unwrapped and...

Looks like I'll be hiking in the desert later this summer! I came into work the day after I wrote the last post to find a message on my...

Will I be hiking over a glacier, or over hot desert sand this summer? Or both? Or just over the same little streets of Providence? And when ...

  Frogs-in-progress caught during last summer's Bioblitz.

Every year Save the Bay holds an art exhibit of work inspired by Narragansett Bay. And every year I go in search for all the waterfront pa...

It was a little hard to adjust to life back on the mainland after spending a weekend on Block Island for the BioBlitz show at Island Gallery...

Nothing says "What the hell are all these people doing?" better than this guy's expression. But all he could do was glower at ...

oil/canvas  24"x30"  copyright 2010 Kathy Hodge This painting, I swear, was well along BEFORE the BP oil spill, but now that i...

My kitten post didn't send my web stats through the roof like I thought (feared) it would. And here I thought everyone loved kittens! M...

Torrential rain drumming on taut nylon is actually louder than thunder, in case you were wondering. I, on the other hand, was wondering if t...

Although I haven't yet caught up on sleep, I've at least dried out after a weekend of thunderstorms, ponds and boating on Block Isl...