Seaside and hillside
Beautiful toughness persists
Showing us the way

I like to look through the Public Domain Image Archive for creative inspiration and just because it’s so interesting. This image of Callystegia soldanella, the Beach Morning Glory, caught my eye today. It’s one of a collection of botanical watercolors from the 16th century. From The Public Domain Review:

These wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations are from a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica. Dioscorides (ca. 40–90 AD), a Greek physician and botanist, is considered to be the father of pharmacology, with this five-volume book hailed as the forerunner of modern pharmacopoeias (books that record medicines along with their effects and directions for their use). 

Read more here.

My “Something Small, Every Day (or so)” series is inspired by Austin Kleon’s piece here where he says, “Building a body of work (or a life) is all about the slow accumulation of a day’s worth of effort over time.”