Imagine that every night when you go to sleep that the covers are your chrysalis. In the morning, each morning, you wake up as a butterfly, because every day is a new opportunity for life.✨🦋 Your wings may be tattered, your body may be damp, your spine may hurt, but you’re still breathing. #imagine

I got me some new plant babies this past weekend. Last photo is for height reference.🌿 Small Anise Tree ~ Illicium parviflorum ~ Got them at Overhill Gardens in Vonore, TN.❤️

Some photos from Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville, Tennessee

My art is on display at Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, this month, so go check it out.😍🌿✨It’s a beautiful place to go for a walk, too.🍁 #nativeplants #artshow #art

Some recent highlights…❤️

Wall mosaic progress, oakleaf hydrangea vivid fall color, Maryland Golden aster seed heads, and recent artwork in progress…

Native plants and our ecoregion are an endless source of inspiration…🌿🥀🪾 “Shadow Self” work in progress 🍂 Inspired by native vines and skeletons of winter and early spring trees… Vines featured: Crossvine and Carolina Jessamine #surrealart #shadowself #maceylouart #nativevines

I’ve finally started my patio wall mosaic project…and fall colors for your viewing pleasure…

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

WIP sketch…🏠

A sweet kitty sleeping on my knee, snow we got a few days ago, and my backyard sassafras looking pretty before that latest cold snap took its leaves.🍂

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

The garden in June of 2019 vs June of 2025❤️Same spot

Recent photos from Swallowtail Lodge

"Olivia" is inspired by the woodlands of the Eastern United States, Olivia's garden is lush, cozy, and peaceful. Birds are often chirping, chipmunks scurrying, and moths can be found at night, hovering about. Follow the path near the Sassafras tree, and you just might find some strange secrets...

My art will be on display at Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, in December. Most of these artworks will feature botanical paintings I’ve created depicting our native flora and fauna. I really hope you all get a chance to visit the exhibition. 😊 ~ MaceyLou #artshow #artexhibit

In the art studio today…🌱

Some Autumn colors at Swallowtail Lodge for your viewing pleasure…my garden❤️ #fallgarden #fallcolor #autumn #viburnum #witchhazel #wildlifepond

No Kings • October 18, 2025 • Knoxville, Tennessee : Many showed up! Check local news sources to see the full numbers. It was incredible! So many driving by, honking in support. I love my city. 😍

Strange and spooky art for October 🕸️😈 MaceyLou.com #strangeart #spookyart #woodlandart #spookywoods #happyhalloween #darkart

Happy to pass along that Robby was released from custody a few hours later. I'm guessing that a lawsuit will be considered.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

A sweet little Carolina Wren + my Sassafras painting. What’s not to love? P.S.: I think the wren is snacking on a cocoon or chrysalis…maybe…

Heroes among us. Whistleblower exposing ICE. WATCH: #Resist

“Olivia” ~ in her woodland garden, featuring trilliums, violets, ferns, and mushrooms…🍄Work in progress ~ more to come #nativewoodland #woodlandgarden #easternunitedstates #nativeplantsofnorthamerica

Whatever these asters are, I love them. I thought they were Late Purple, but I’m not sure.😅😂🤷🏼‍♀️

A bench in the courtyard garden 🪏 The asters are blooming.

Recently: 1) American Beautyberry being a beauty 2) A new book I finished and I loved it! It’s a cozy spooky mystery involving a gardening plot! 3) Caterpillar lurking near the threshold 4) a mantis. I think it’s the Carolina one.🤞🏼 I hope so. It’s on Ptelea trifoliata in the back garden #reading

Cute fall outfits 👀🎃 You can find the printed tops and some of the hats at bonfire.com/store/a-wild-approach/ #fallfashion #autumn #outfits #clothes #fits

Baby sassafras fall colors showing up 🎃😍🌱

Asters and spiders and works in progress…🦋

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you to everyone that showed up to the Smart Yards Festival on Saturday! I’m so glad I got to meet some of you in person. It was a great success and a fun day. We also got lucky and only got a few sprinkles and a few cracks of thunder. Nothing major! Then the weather cleared up.🥰

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

More of my art🌱

Tomorrow at UT Gardens in Knoxville, TN, come say hi to me! I’ll be selling art and sharing a booth with Native Plant Rescue Squad! Get plants for your garden and art for your walls.❤️🌱9 am to 1 pm eastern time. It’s the Smart Yards Festival! 2518 Jacob Dr Knoxville, TN 37916 #nativeplants

Late purple aster, spilling over the retaining wall.😍

This beauty showed up yesterday 💜💜💜 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on Ironweed #swallowtailbutterfly #butterflygarden #nativeplants

I designed some owl shirts. They are inspired by the owl that showed up near my garden recently. It’s spooky season, I love owls, and I want to create merch inspired by these things. So I did. If you don’t know, I have a YouTube channel where I talk about wildlife gardening. Merch helps support it.

Bog garden started✅

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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

If I remember correctly there used to be a show called Info Wars and the host whose name I don't recall talked at great length about how the slaughter of children was just a bunch of actors and not a real thing. I don't recall the FCC getting involved with this.

How many of these folks have been living under a rock for the past few years or decades? How many other groups of people have already been scared of being offed because of their beliefs or lifestyle or for simply being 10 years old and going to school?

These asters are so stunning it hurts. 🥹

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

A sampling of some of my art❤️ #art #painting #cicadas #mermaids #cats #waterlily

Here are most stages of the Giant Swallowtail butterfly in my back garden over the past couple months or so. I couldn’t find the chrysalis, yet! But I’ll keep checking. Its host tree pictured is Ptelea trifoliata (hop tree). #hoptree #giantswallowtail #butterflygarden #swallowtailbutterfly

This is why they’re deleting studies