- On August 24, 2020
- By Kate
It looks like a regular plant, but upon touching it, it feels like a succulent (which is it.) The beautiful Copper Spoons (Kalanchoe orgyalis) is a delight. The new leaves…
- On August 19, 2020
- By Kate
Seems like everyone in the Bay Area has a Jade plant because these plants like the weather and temp range. Here in zone 10, Jade plants grow wild! The technical…
- On August 18, 2020
- By Kate
August 18th episode of What is Wrong with UX In this episode, Kate and Laura quibble about why on earth people would use anything that they designed. Apparently some people…
- On August 11, 2020
- By Kate
There's a strange and magical beauty in plankton. Nature Journalist Janai Southworth has a microscope and hosts Pacific Plankton, a plankton-viewing livestream on Twitch. What an opportunity to take a…
- On August 9, 2020
- By Kate
Since I had no answers, I asked questions.
- On August 4, 2020
- By Kate
August 4th episode of What is Wrong with UX In this episode, Kate and Laura reveal all the secrets (ed note: there are no secrets and they're probably wrong) to…
- On August 2, 2020
- By Kate
In order to learn more about our recent plantings, I'm making a plant portrait each week. We have 6 different Coleus because I fell in love with all the color…
I don't know much about plants. So when we started to populate the outside space with living things, I had no idea what to pick. To guide us, we set…
After many months of shelter-in-place and stay-at-home-order sketching, the East Bay Sketchers were finally able to meet in person. We had 4 attend the Saturday session. After a brief meet-and-greet,…
July 21st episode of What is Wrong with UX In this episode, Kate and Laura take a decidedly unprincipled look at design principles. Kate proves that drinking does, in fact,…
