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It's Spring
Gondolier of Venice
I Love You Mom
Winter
Autumn Rose
Bench at Giverny
Cello Fantasy
Contemplating Eve
Summer Afternoon
Ballet des Fleurs
Dolphin Fountain at the Harbor
I Love You Mom
Country Cottage
Passion Flower
A Healing Space
Flower Celebration
War and Peace
Mission at Santa Barbara
Flower Faeries
Roses of Conquest
Sailing
Floral Chorus
Voting Booth
Butterfly Woman
Flowers and Song
Grandma's Table
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Spa Day
WaterFall
Waiter at the Champs Elysees
Tea Time
Water Fountain
Beckoning Bay
Yellow Light
Swan Duet
Chef at the Farmer's Market
Meubles de Jardin
Jaaazzzz
Bon Jour
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Tag Archives: environment
Chef at the Farmer’s Market
Chef at the Farmer’s Market This lively artwork was inspired by my trips to the many weekly colorful, bountiful Farmer’s Markets along the California Central Coast region. Such beautiful produce! Wonderful flowers! Arts & crafts! I enjoyed painting the sunflowers … Continue reading
Posted in In the Garden, Most Popular, Nicole's News Hot Sheet, Portfolio, Romantic Destinations, Scapes, The Human Element
Tagged Apple, art, boots, chef, environment, farmer's market, garden, human element, in the garden, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, nvd, romantic destinations, rose, sunflower, tomato, vegetable garden
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Honey Bee Happy
Honey Bee Happy A trio of happy honey bees and dancing gerbera daisies adorn a colorful honey comb of fun. Honey Bee Happy is my homage to the valuable honey bee in our ecosystem. I tried to make Honey Bee … Continue reading
Posted in Abstracts, In the Garden, Nature and Animals, Nicole's News Hot Sheet, Portfolio
Tagged animals, art, bee, bumble bee, environment, garden, honey, honey bee, honey comb, in the garden, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, nvd
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Amazing Acrobatic Squirrel Defies Gravity!
Check out this video – this squirrel is AMAZING! It’s hard to believe how daring and fun this squirrel is, with lots of personality. As you will see in the film clip, this squirrel LOVES a challenge – rather than … Continue reading
Yellow Light
Yellow LightYellow Light “Yellow Light” is about the tension between nature’s needs and man’s increasing urbanization, symbolized by the bird nesting in the yellow light, while human life and machinery happily go on in the background. The from-the-stop-light-looking-down perspective was … Continue reading
Posted in Nature and Animals, Nicole's News Hot Sheet, Portfolio, Scapes, The Human Element
Tagged animals, art, bird, caution, emoticon, environment, human element, landscape, light, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, nest, nvd, traffic light, yellow light
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Contented Peace, Happiness and Bliss at the Bird Feeder – Grosbeaks and a Dove!
In the video below you will see Contented Peace, Bliss and Happiness at our magical bird feeder! If only the whole world got along this well! Our bird feeder is so busy, pretty soon we are going to need an … Continue reading
Our injured Black-Headed Grosbeak has a friend!
We are thrilled that so many black-headed grosbeaks have returned with the warmer weather, to keep our injured black-headed grosbeak company. Sometimes our little guy has as many as three fellow grosbeaks around him – all males. Once I saw … Continue reading
Inspiring Santa Barbara “Ever-Bloom” Nursery Tour
Thanks to my amazing friend Carol, we went with the Ventura County Garden Club on a SPECTACULAR tour of Santa Babara’s Ever-Bloom nursery – and all I can say is… LOOK AT THESE PICTURES! I am so inspired! Imagine acres … Continue reading
Next Painting to be of the Veggie Garden!
How can one not be inspired by this time of year in the garden? We just planted the vegetable garden, and it is amazing! Just as these little plants are the start of this year’s vegetable crop, so too shall … Continue reading
Posted in The Artist's Thoughts
Tagged art, crop report, environment, garden, inspiration, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, new projects
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The Veggie Garden is Planted!!!
This is such a miraculous time of the year. The garden boxes transform from barren to full of hope; the yard is all a-twitter with birds – even our blue bird houses have residents (but not blue birds!). As last … Continue reading
On Bluebird Houses, “Grocery Chopping,” and our Black-Headed Grosbeak
My husband has been hard at work – harvesting today’s crop, making me smile, and putting up two blue bird houses, and being all around wonderful! I have seen a few bluebirds – beautiful red-breasted Western Bluebirds – in our … Continue reading
Happy Ending!
For those of you that have been following my postings, you will know that at our birdfeeders we have seen a black-headed grosbeak wihich has a broken wing. He has wintered here with us, when instead he is supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening & Animals & Inspirations
Tagged bird, conservation, environment, garden, Grosbeak, inspiration, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, Malty, Molly, nature, squirrel, vegetable garden
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The Ever Ravenous and Unendingly Cute Mort-the-Squirrel
Our squirrel Mort will eat and eat and eat. He just reaches into the bird feeder and chows down. He’s awesomely cute, and it’s fun to watch him hold the goodies in his paws and nibble away. It’s no great … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, environment, garden, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, Mort, squirrel
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It’s a Squirrely Business!
As our Leonberger dog watched with his usual gentle fascination, we had two visitors to our bird feeder today – our inspirational Molly squirrel, whose broken leg happily still seems to be improving, and adorable Mort, who has the cutest … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, environment, garden, inspiration, Leonberger, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, Molly, Mort, squirrel
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Update on our Black-Headed Grosbeak
Those of you who follow this blog already know that we have a wonderful black-headed Grosbeak wintering in our garden – he is supposed to be in Southern Mexico or Latin America, but because of a wing injury, he has … Continue reading
Brilliant Blue Jay masters a super-tough nut-to-crack, the Peanut Wreath!
Our wonderful neighbors gave us a heavy wire peanut wreath. It essentially is a super-tightly wound slinky, that is immobile – these wires are thick and can’t be adjusted even with human hands. The idea is to wedge the peanuts … Continue reading
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Tagged bird, Blue Jay, conservation, environment, garden, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, peanut, Rutherbird
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Update on Inspirational Molly Squirrel!
Our little squirrel with the broken leg, Molly, is hanging in there! Here you can see her progress – we are thrilled to see how much better Molly is doing on her broken leg. This post shares the follow-up video … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening & Animals & Inspirations
Tagged Bird Feeder, conservation, environment, garden, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, Molly, squirrel
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Thanks to Wonderful Neighbors Karen & Jim, Squirrels and Blue Jays have a GREAT Holiday!
We were so surprised when we came home and found a LARGE holiday gift bag, filled with what is best described as a large wire ring wreath, and a bag of peanuts, along with a lovely card. Our animal-loving-kindred-spirits-neighbors, Karen … Continue reading
Two Best Buds – Our Bourke Parrots (aka Bourke Parakeets); Our Female bird gets the munchies!
These two birds have come a long way since they first met. Now they can share the same cage, and when they do, they are very sympatico. Here are some little glimpses into their world: Here is some footage of … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening & Animals & Inspirations
Tagged bird, bourke, crop report, environment, garden, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, parakeet, parrot, pet, vegetable garden, veggie
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Rosie and Emma Plant a Seed™ Now Available on Amazon!
Rosie and Emma Plant a Seed™ is M. Nicole van Dam’s joyous and beautifully illustrated children’s book about a young girl Emma and her Leonberger dog Rosie, who find a mysterious seed and plant it. As the mysterious seed grows, … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Books, Gardening & Animals & Inspirations, New Nicole Artworks, New Nicole Product Updates, Nicole's News Hot Sheet, The Artist's Thoughts, Writer's Corner
Tagged Amazon, bird, book, children, children's book, dog, environment, garden, Leonberger, living green, M. Nicole van Dam, Once Upon a Time, pet, poetry, Rosie and Emma Plant a Seed, vegetable garden
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