Forsythia

In the olive family; Sketched in Maine; not native to North America

Machias Bay in May

*Actual colorS*

Decades of jade

Crassula ovata (native to Southeast Africa, Sketched in UPSTATE NEW YORK)

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According to my sister this is the same jade that was a tiny houseplant in my bedroom a couple of decades or so ago. (Now it’s practically a forest in her living room.)

Dark memory

Cherry trunk

Prunus Sp. (Rosaceae)

No leaves on the trees yet in downeast Maine, but the trunks are looking good