wendy macnaughton

February 6, 2012

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daniel handler and maira kalman at city arts & lectures talking about their new book Why We Broke Up.

January 31, 2012, pt. 2

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caroline and i have been working on a book together for about a year - Lost Cat, A Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology. today we turned it into our publisher.
it will be out in a year.

January 31, 2012

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Life.

January 27, 2011

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Big news on the My Life Is True front: in addition to the Bay Area's KQED, MLIT is now airing nationally on NPR's Marketplace, with a listenership of over 8 Million. It is also hosted on PRX and you can subscribe to the My Life Is True podcast. Huge props to Doug McGray and Anne Stuhldreher for creating this incredible project.

January 25, 2012 - pt. 2

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Coffee Shop Thoughts.

january 25, 2012

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Jnauary 21, 2011

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I wrote and drew an article for the Bold Italic about some of SF's best bloggers. It's more like a love letter, really. Here are a few of the portraits:

January 17, 2011

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the piece i did for the New York Times on famous writers' fuel was featured in Design Indaba Magazine. check it out if you can - it's a really beautiful magazine out of south africa - this issue was guest edited by Marije Vogelzang and focuses on food and design.

January 15, 2011

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stalker drawings.

January 14, 2011

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Liam was born on January 2, 2012. Finally.

January 13, 2012

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SF dog people: we are no longer F'ing around.

January 11, 2012

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a new My Life Is True story is on KQED today: Leo, an Iraq vet who witnesses a murder at Occupy Oakland.

you can listen to it here.

and in other big My Life Is True News, NPR's Marketplace has started airing the stories to its 9 Million listeners. (9 million! huge cheers to marketplace.)

January 9, 2012

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ps. i'm jewish so i feel like i can say that thing about auschwitz

January 7, 2012

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January 7, 2012 part 2

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January 2, 2012

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i'm in indiana without a scanner all this week so this will have to do for now. i'll have plenty more to post from holidays and new years and other stuff when i return to sf.

till then, here's to 2011:

and 2012 from indianapolis:

december 10, 2011

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drawings from a quick trip to LA.

December 12, 2011

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in the sunday New York Times! (thank you to fabulous art director Corinne Myller.)

December 10, 2011

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i just released a new print for the holidays: How to Make Wine.

it was originally created for Pop-Up Magazine at the San Francisco Museum of Art.

it's a 12" x 18", high-quality digital print on heavy matte paper. image
size is 11x17, so it's easy to frame.

you can buy How to Make Wine, other prints and the SFPL library books here. (all these things make excellent gifts, don't you think?) and if you're in the states and you order by the 15th i'll be sure you get it in time for the holidays.

thanks & cheers!

december 7, 2011

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these were commissioned by the writer anne germanacos as a gift for her sister. anne gave me a few pieces of writing for inspiration. the words are hers.

december 6, 2011

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lots to do.

December 4, 2011

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drawings of miranda july at city arts & lectures last week.
she was really great. her parents are nice, too.

November 28, 2011

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a couple drawings were featured in an article on SF in the German travel magazine CAPZ.

and i quote:

The Mission Ist Cool.
San Francisco Ist Auch Cool,
Viel Cooler Als L.A.

(please note this is the same map that was on the cover of 7x7 a few yeas ago - it is not accurate and contains a few grave errors. it is currently no longer in print due to those errors - a new one is coming soon. i'm not promising it will be/can ever be perfect, but it will be an improvement.)

November 27, 2011

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some chickens i drew are featured in tanya madoff's Button Club this month.
you too can get buttons.

November 18, 2011

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Aasolutely thrilled and honored to do some drawings of Leonardo's brain for Krulwich Wonders on NPR. read robert's piece - it totally justifies your scatterbrain. or at least it does mine.

November 16, 2011 pt. 2

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vendela vida in conversation with joan didion at city arts & lectures.

November 16, 2011

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here are a couple images from my installation at the sf20 design show that never made it online. the first is my book collection drawn as the sf skyline. the second is a 100% bear-free bear skin rug.

November 8, 2011

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November 4, 2011 (pt. 2)

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Here are drawings of Radiolab Live: In The Dark. i drew them in the dark.

November 4, 2011

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A new Meanwhile is up today on The Rumpus. It's about the famous SF neighborhood around 6th and Mission. Below are the first few images. You can see the whole thing here.

November 2, 2011

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Two things.

1. RadioLab rehearsing a live show.

2. Some of the people who attended a course in positive psychology for the aging at the SF public library.

November 2, 2011

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here are a few of the drawings included in a video about immigrant families and the foster care system created by The Applied Research Center and ColorLines. the video's release coincides with the release of their groundbreaking report on why it's important to keep immigrant families together.

November 1, 2011

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last day of harvesting at Quivira. thanks greg ralston and OTP wine for letting me hang out for the day.

october 31, 2011

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chickens!

October 28, 2011

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installation at Here Be Dragons show at intersection for the arts.

October 21, 2011

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a few things not included in the installation in this show.

5th vs 6th

things i heard over the course of five minutes at 5th vs 6th

October 20, 2011

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Mapping show at intersection for the arts opens tomorrow. more info here.

October 13, 2011

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i'm in a show at Intersection for the Arts in SF opening on October 21st. other artists include Tucker Nichols, Eric Fischer, JD Beltran, Jenny Odell and more.
the theme of the show is mapping and i'm creating a piece around the 5th/6th and mission street area. i hope you can make it to the opening.

October 11, 2011

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"i ran out of money for school.. so i decided to rob a bank."
hear the latest story from my life is true by clicking here.

October 10, 2011

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ry cooder and lynell george at city arts and lectures last week.

October 6, 2011

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from bernal.

October 4, 2011

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October 3, 2011

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Butch on the beach.

September 28, 2011

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I did an interview with Inspired Outsiders and there's a nice little feature on my work on Black Harbor.

September 27, 2011

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the bold italic just put out its first quarterly magazine and it is gorgeous and broke-ass stuart and i got to be centerfolds. or at least our words and drawings did.

this piece was originally published on the BI's website, with more wonderful words from stuart here. you can subscribe to the magazine here. also featured in the magazine - favorite friends the curiosity shoppe and more.

September 26, 2011

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holy smokes.

Meanwhile, The San Francisco Public Library in Its Own Words is now a BOOK!

With the generous support of the SF Mayor's office of Protocol and the brilliant folks at Electric Works, we created a beautiful, 48 page, 6x9 inch, full color book. And it's for sale. It's 20 bucks, plus 4 for shipping. Part of the proceeds will go to supporting the SFPL.

You can purchase them here and at finer book and design shops in SF.

(and if you missed the article in the sf chronicle about the making of the piece you can read it here.)

Get your copy (and one for a friend) here.

September 25, 2011

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September 22, 2011

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it's actually hot in sf.

September 20, 2011

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last weekend was SF20/21 - the SF art and design show.

stanlee gatti asked 6 artists to recreate their studios and work there for a few days. i was lucky to be one of them.
other artists were matt dick, anadamayi arnold, the popular workshop, a knife maker from the town cutler and angelina deantonis .

favorite friends curiosity shoppe set up a popshop.

thanks to everyone who stopped in - it was great to have you over.

(photos by drew altizer & daniel will-harris, starring helena, jordan and griffin)

September 5, 2011

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August 30, 2011 (pt. 2)

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a few outtakes from Meanwhile, Musicians (on tour with Thao & Mirah)

August 30, 2011

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A one hour special Hidden World of Girls is coming soon...

August 24, 2011

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Meanwhile, Farmers' Market Farmers was published in full in the Fall issue of Gastronomica Magazine.

August 21. 2011

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a new Meanwhile is up at the Rumpus. it's on the life of touring musicians Thao & Mirah, and independent musicians in general.

you can see the whole thing here.

here's a sample:

the whole story is here.

August 16, 2011

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A couple months ago i spent some time on tour with Thao & Mirah, drawing the behind the scenes stuff. (you might know them from their respective work - thao is thao of thao with the get down stay down, and mirah is mirah of mirah.)

At long last i'm putting together a little drawing documentary on their tour, and on being an independent musician in general. It'll be like a mini-meanwhile - i'll post it this friday on the rumpus.

Meantime, check out their music.

August 15, 2011

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My Life Is True, a project by Doug McGray and Anne Stuhldreher, has a new 2-minute radio story up. It's important and worth carving a couple minutes out of your day to hear. Check it out here.

August 8, 2011

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I made a little illustrated story on the making of Longshot Magazine Issue #2 using drawings form the weekend and tweets tweeted by participants over those 48 epic hours.

You can see the whole thing here. (thanks mat honan for the super single serving site.)

Here is the beginning:

See the rest here.

And get yourself a copy of Longshot Magazine.

August 7, 2011

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August 4, 2011

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I just released two new prints.

The first is the New York Times Book Review piece "Snacks of the Great Scribblers".
It's Professionally Printed, Highest Quality Archival Digital Pigment Print on Archival Rag Paper. Print size: approx 10" x 10.5"
You can purchase it here.

The second piece is from Longshot Magazine's "Debt" issue and is titled the "Circles of Influence", created by Michelle Legro of Lapham's Quarterly, Maria Popova of Brain Pickings & myself. “Circles of Influence” is a chart of artistic, scientific, and philosophical debts through time.
It's High Quality Digital Print on Matte Paper. Print size : 11"x14", and a percentage of proceeds go to support Longshot magazine.
You can purchase it here.

and thanks. hope you love & enjoy them.

August 1, 2011

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Oh, not much. Just spent the weekend in New York making a magazine, a website and a radio show with the best minds of my generation.

Longshot Magazine Issue 2 is out, and i am so, so impressed by the many hundrends of people who submitted excellent stories and artwork - and all the folks who edited, designed, fact checked, developed, recorded, programmed the heck out of a print/audio/web magazine in 48 hours.

You can see it online here.

You can buy the gorgeous print version here.

You can listen to Longshot radio here.

And you can read a piece about the collaboration (see below) between Michelle Legro of Lapham's Quarterly, Atlantic, etc Maria Popova of Brainpickings and myself on page 14 here.

I'll post some drawings I did for the magazine as well as an illustrated documentary about the making of the magazine soon. but in the meantime, please check out the links above and consider supporting Longshot by purchasing an print issue or sharing the links with your friends.

The afore mentioned collaboration (but you really should see it in print) :

July 31, 2011

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Whoa.

July 28, 2011

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The new Edible SF is out and i got to do the cover and a bunch of drawings re. the neighborhoods for it. This time it's about the tenderloin, hayes valley and western addition. So fun.

July 27, 2011

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Stephen Elliott is making a movie.

July 25, 2011

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sf to ashland to sf

July 18, 2011

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so this is flattering. i'm one of the 7 finalists for 7x7 magazine's San Francisco hot 20 under 40 reader's choice award. please take 5 seconds to vote for me here.

deadline is tomorrow - you can vote once a day - so once today, once tomorrow. and if i win we'll all have a big party and you're invited.

vote.

July 13, 2011

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More from this week on the Kitchen Sisters' Hidden World of Girls:

Day 2.

Day 3.

July 10, 2011

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this week, the incomparable queens of radio (and my personal heros) NPR's Kitchen Sisters, are hosting "A Week of Wendy" on their site. inspired by their multi-media radio series Hidden World of Girls, i created a new banner for each day of the week for their blog, and every day they'll feature a Meanwhile a day to go with it. you can see today's installment here.

(return to the Hidden World of Girls site every day this week for something new.)

2011-07-08T09:35:00.000-07:00

My Life Is True is a new public radio project created by Anne Stuhldreher and DougMcGray in which people whose important stories usually go unheard share their perspectives on KQED in Northern California during NPR's Morning Edition.

I'm honored to create portraits of the participants for the site.

You can hear their stories here: My Life Is True

Pictured above: Jose Arreola, whose story about coming out as an undocumented immigrant ran this morning.

july 5, 2011

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an american in spain.

june 27, 2011

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swimming in the mediterranean.

June 20, 2011

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leif hedendal hosted a very special dinner discussion at the JB Blunk residency in inverness.

it really is the most beautiful place.

june 17, 2011

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before/after.

june 15, 2011

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caroline and i are working on a book.

june 11, 2011

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june 10, pt. 3

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one more, from the flight.
the options to the left are constellations of freckles.

june 10, pt. 2

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one more.

june 10, 2011

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i drew a lot in spain. here are a few. next week i'll hopefully post a whole story made of drawings.

june 9, 2011

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after two days of travel, home.

june 1, 2011

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I'm in Spain, and I've been sick. below are a few bits thus far, including the view I've had while getting well.
we are driving south today.

may 26, 2011

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hairstyles between Munich and Barcelona.

may 23, 2011

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Location:JFK airport, NYC

May 19, 2011

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This season's new Edible San Francisco magazine (who just won James Beard Foundation Publication of the Year) is out and I got to do the cover and interior illustrations again (you can see excerpts from the last edition here). This season the magazine focused on the Potrero Hill/Dogpatch/Hunters Point/Bayview area, where i happen to live. i created a quasi-historical maplike drawing of the area's food-centric history for the cover, and drew some foodstuff from the featured neighborhood on the interior (like serpentine and slow club, black jet bakery & flora grubb). you can find the magazine in local eateries and grocery shops around SF, or subscribe here.

May 18, pt. 2

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People have been asking if they can buy images from the Meanwhile series. Good news: I have two new prints out on 20x200 from Meanwhile, Farmers' Market Farmers. They are available in 8x10, 11x14 and 16x20, and they taste better when you buy both.
you can read about and purchase the mushrooms here.
and you can read about and purchase the vegetables here.
thanks and hope you enjoy.

May 18, 2011

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i had the pleasure of working with the one and only broke-ass stuart on a piece for the bold italic that came out yesterday. happy to say it got so much traffic it crashed their server by mid-afternoon.
you can read the whole thing here.

thanks to the brilliant designer wes mitchell for making stuart's words and my pics flow so well together, and nicole grant for producing the heck out of it.

May 16, 2011

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There was a very kind and generous article about my work in last week's SF Chronicle newspaper. Lots of pictures on the cover of the Datebook section. I appreciate the coverage and that the reporter, Nellie Bowles, did not spill too much about my dark, hidden past.

One correction to the piece: i do not lead graphic journos. that would be Susie Cagle. i am just honored to be a member.

May 15, 2011

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Last week I put out a new Meanwhile on The Rumpus, this time about the San Francisco Public Library. It tells the story of the people who work there, what they do, and who they serve in their own words. The response has been overwhelming. I think this has more to do with the subject matter than the art (it really is an amazing place.) Thank you everyone for your interest and for sharing the story.

Below is an excerpt. You can see the whole thing here.

You can see the rest of it on The Rumpus, here.

May 11, 2011

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at flora grubb.

May 10, 2011

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(as always, click to open in a new window, click again to enlarge)

april 28, 2011, pt. 2

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april 28, 2011

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six cameras from the san francisco public library's collection.

April 26, 2011

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april 25, 2011

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click on the image a couple times to enlarge.

april 23, 2011

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steph's old barn boots.

April 18, 2011

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kio stark's novel Follow Me Down comes out in June.

April 15, 2011

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good news. i've been made an Awesome Fellow by the Awesome Foundation. yes that's its real name. you can read about the foundation and what i'm working on here.

also, "Meanwhile, The Dog Walkers" is published in this month's Bark Magazine. they did a great job fitting the whole thing into a few pages.

April 13, 2011

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check this out: Graphic Journos. it's a group of graphic journalists working in different ways, on different projects. myself included. what's graphic journalism, you ask? again, see Graphic Journos. for twitter folk, that's @graphicjournos

pass it along to your favorite editor. we're all for hire.

(the above reporter's notebook belongs to a sf chronicle reporter who visited the studio and followed me around as i drew. the story should be out in a couple weeks - stay tuned.)

April 10, 2011

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from the passenger seat at night, drawing in the dark.

April 5, 2011 (pt. 2)

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sampling of small succulents at flora grubb.

April 5, 2011

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a little early. (more flora grubb)

April 4, 2011 (pt.2)

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