I’ve moved about a half dozen houseplants indoors, after having them spend the summer out of doors. They always come back in infinitely healthier and larger after spending a few months in the elements. The extra greenery around here has me painting more botanical things as of late.

Three Things:

*This crochet blanket pattern by designer Lisa van Klaveren, inspired by the quilt I illustrated in Anne’s Arrives, is amazing.

*I’m about 2/3 of the way through Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, reading it for research. The story of the Globe Tower that never was deserves a movie, for sure.

*Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin is a 2021 Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year selection.