Artsy Me by L Marie

09/01/2026

I'm ready for the ♡ Ber months ♡. So tired of the heat dome we have endured! 🍂 🎃 🦃 🎄 How about you?

08/30/2026

Yep. So Me. 🪴 🌿 🌱

08/24/2026

How about you? I am soooo over this intense heat dome ☀️ & ready for cooler temps. 🍂

08/12/2026

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! 💫🤩

August 12, 2026, is shaping up to be an unusually busy day for skywatchers, with a six-planet alignment, a total solar eclipse, a New Moon and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower all occurring within roughly the same 24-hour period.

The day begins before sunrise.

Six planets—Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune—will appear spread across a wide section of the morning sky. Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn should be visible without optical equipment under good conditions, while Uranus and Neptune will require binoculars or a telescope. The best viewing window in many Northern Hemisphere locations will be roughly 30 to 60 minutes before sunrise.

Later that day comes the total solar eclipse.

The path of totality will cross Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain and a small part of Portugal. A much larger area—including most of Canada, parts of the northern United States, much of Europe and northwestern Africa—will experience a partial eclipse.

The eclipse happens at New Moon, which means there will be essentially no moonlight interfering with the night sky afterward.

That sets up excellent conditions for the Perseid meteor shower.

The Perseids peak during the night of August 12 into the early hours of August 13. Under dark, clear skies, the shower can produce roughly 50 to 100 meteors per hour near its peak.

So the order is simple:

Six planets before sunrise.

A solar eclipse during the day.

A New Moon.

Then the Perseids after dark and into the early morning.

NASA specifically lists the August 12 total solar eclipse and Perseid peak among the major astronomical highlights of 2026.

For anyone hoping to see the eclipse, proper certified solar-viewing protection is essential whenever any part of the Sun remains visible.

August 12 is going to give skywatchers plenty of reasons to look up.

07/26/2026

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07/20/2026

Mother Nature's 🎨 🖌 with this whimsical, lovely shadow. 🌳 ☀️

07/18/2026

Luv all. The stone art, the statues, murals, more.
Such creativity. Bravo. 👏
Source: Street Art Utopia

Eight artworks that only become whole when you look. The empty spaces matter as much as the materials. Missing bronze suggests a whole figure, separate beach stones become a seahorse, and painted fragments align as one face across a hillside. More: When Shadows Play Tricks on Us (11 Photos) ⚔️ ....

07/04/2026

🎆 Wishing all of my Artsy Friends & Followers a very Happy & Safe 4th of July. 🎇
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06/27/2026

Patriotic Windsocks with 4 of my Grands today. Such a fun, creative, inexpensive little project to decorate our porches for the .
We used red solo cups with hand painted white stars, a knotted rubber band inserted in a criss cross in flat of cup became hanger & we cut up a blue plastic table cloth for streamers taped inside cup. Supplies less than $4. & maybe a half hour timewise.

05/31/2026

The Full Blue moon 🌚 for my birthday 💙 🥳

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The Full Blue Moon, today, May 31st