Paula Borchardt

@paulaborchardt@mastodon.world
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I'm a visual storyteller—I love to combine my art 🎨 and words to tell stories. I enjoy working in a serial format and my favorite subject matter is natural history 🌵.

Other interests include clean energy 🌞, comics 💬, music 🎵 & science fiction 🖖. Pronouns: she/her.

Websitehttps://www.paulaborchardt.com/
Blog & Free Email Newsletterhttps://paulaborchardt.substack.com/
YouTube (Art Process Videos)https://www.youtube.com/@PaulaBorchardt
Paula Borchardt3d ago

To follow up on my recent Monarch larva art, here are my to scale photos comparing Monarch & Queen larvae showing their different sizes, patterns & number of tubercles! Read more on my latest blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/butterfly-excitement-part-1

#Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #outdoors #climate #conservation #blog #insect #arthropod #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #caterpillar #Monarch #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography

Butterfly Excitement, Part 1

—We have a Monarch Caterpillar! 😍

Paula Borchardt - Visual Storyteller
Paula Borchardt4d ago
eclectechJun 19, 2023

This... this will not end well.

#photography #birds #nature #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles

Paula Borchardt5d ago

For the 1st time EVER we had a Monarch Butterfly larva on 1 of our Milkweeds!!! So exciting!!! 😍 Here’s my Perpetual Journal art of it; read more on my latest blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/butterfly-excitement-part-1

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #ecosystem #nature #climate #wildflower #BloomScrolling #insect #arthropod #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #caterpillar #Monarch

Butterfly Excitement, Part 1

—We have a Monarch Caterpillar! 😍

Paula Borchardt - Visual Storyteller
Paula Borchardt6d ago
BrianKrebsApr 22
My wife and I have gotten into the habit of asking each other at dinner what was the best thing that happened to each other that day. She now likes this tradition so much she's expanded it into three things, which I contend makes the whole thing more of a mental exercise, but I usually manage. I have found though that it makes me take closer note of the good things that happen during the day, so I'm not left with "uh...." when it's my turn. It also helps punctuate the positive at a time when there's a whole lot of the opposite.
Paula Borchardt6d ago
Picard TipsApr 22
Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.
Paula BorchardtApr 23
The Latest KateApr 22
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Paula BorchardtApr 23
Jon SullivanApr 23

It's autumn, and we've had plenty of wet weather in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ, so that means nature has turned on its funky fungi tap.

I found these yesterday.

This is all happening just in time for this year's #CityNatureChallenge, happening around the world Friday–Monday this weekend. Be sure to upload all the weird fungi you can find onto #iNaturalist

#fungi #nz #nature

Paula BorchardtApr 22
Brian BilstonApr 22
Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.
Paula BorchardtApr 20

In my Tucson, AZ yard I’ve had 6 Queen Butterfly larvae pupate & eclose as butterflies in the past month! Here’s my Perpetual Journal art of a Queen chrysalis, Northern Cardinal & Brittlebush.

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #nature #Brittlebush #insect #bug #bugs #bugstodon #butterfly #larva #caterpillar #chrysalis #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Cardinal

Paula BorchardtApr 20
Jen SorensenApr 19

Latest comic: Veneer of Normalcy

#authoritarianism #economy #cartoon #comic