Common Yellowthroat Warbler, Indian Hemp ~ "Hidden Treasures" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed a crown of red that

a crown of red that demands restraint from my brush

I worked freehand on archival cotton rag paper with my Kissho Gansai pigments from Kyoto

drinking from those ragged red blooms

whistling peter-peter from the next branch over

"Happiness of the Bluebirds" captures a pair of eastern bluebirds together — their cobalt backs and warm russet breasts glowing against soft botanical tones

Common Yellowthroat Warbler, Indian Hemp ~ "Hidden Treasures" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Framed a crown of red thatYou hear a Common Yellowthroat long before you see one. That bright witchety witchety song comes out of the low brush, and then if you wait a small bird with a black bandit's mask darts up, all yellow throat and quick movement, and is gone again. I caught one of those moments here, the warbler half hidden among the Indian hemp, the way it really lives: tucked into the green, showing itself only for a second. That is what 'Hidden Treasures' is about.