Posts Tagged: Donna Billick
Ah, Spring!
It's a glorious day, the first day of spring, and what better time to mark the occasion by visiting...
A honey bee foraging on ceanothus in the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A painted lady, Vanessa carduii, finds a cut-leaf lilac, Syringa × laciniata, quite attractive. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Check out the pollen on this honey bee foraging on ceanothus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A mournful dusky-wing butterfly (Erynnis tristis) on Spanish lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Mother Earth, a mosaic ceramic sculpture by Donna Billick of Davis, overlooks the UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A torrent of emotions on the face of Mother Earth, the work of artist Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Brush With Bees
If you plant a bottlebrush in your yard, you'll experience a brush with kindness. This time of...
Honey bee on a bottlebrush at the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is Miss Bee Haven, art work by Donna Billick. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The ABCs of the Bee-a-Thon 3
What Emmet Brady describes as "the wonderful world of pollination" will come to life on Wednesday,...
Honey bee on an apple blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee on a begonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee on a cucumber blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Celebrate the Honey Bee!
Saturday, Aug. 17 is National Honey Bee Day and it's time for a tribute, a salute and a cheer, all...
Honey bee heading toward tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Italian honey bee nectaring lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Worker bee sculpture, "Miss Bee Haven," by Donna Billick of Davis, co-founder and co-director of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion. This anchors the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Making of a Bee
Take one nationally celebrated artist and one nationally renowned entomologist. Blend together. Add...
The Miss Bee Haven Project starts with a lump of clay. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Special tools are used. The hole is for a metal rod. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Paint is added next. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Wings receive special treatment. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Almost ready to fire in the kiln. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The finished product: a ceramic bee on a metal rod. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)