Danna Ray (@dannaray)

Might depend on what you want to plant, but have you considered layering cardboard over the area to suppress the blackberries? I often bring in soil and plant on top of it for new beds in weedy areas

13.01.2026 14:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Early Snow, oil on panel, 10 x 10” 2025

#art #painting #landscape

17.12.2025 13:27 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks so much!

12.12.2025 12:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Beach, oil on panel, 16 x 20” 2025
#painting #landscape #oilpainting #art

12.12.2025 12:48 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Asters and Goldenrod, oil on panel, 20 x 16” 2025
#art #landscape #oilpainting

11.12.2025 14:04 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

One of the silver linings of the last year has been watching the neighboring land regrow after the landslide. What was once a mowed lawn transformed into a wild meadow: a home to monarchs, rabbits, deer, hawks, and so many native grasses.

Rewilding, oil on panel, 12 x 9” 2025

08.12.2025 17:16 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

After a long dormant season in the studio, conditions were finally right for this painting

Tanawha Milkweed, oil on panel,
12 x 9” 2025

#art #oilpainting #landscape #asclepias

04.12.2025 11:53 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I planted a mini meadow from Roundstone mix last spring and everything did well. Looking forward to more year 2 blooms. Good luck with yours!

04.12.2025 11:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think I found the artist you’re looking for!
elizabetharthouse.bsky.social

05.10.2025 04:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you Adrian!

30.09.2025 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coming back to this abandoned milkweed painting. Yesterday I found a monarch caterpillar forming a chrysalis on the garden milkweed. It was exactly one year after this area washed away in a landslide during Hurricane Helene

#art #painting #landscape

28.09.2025 13:18 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This reminds me of the research that conservatives tend to have larger amygdalas

26.07.2025 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

cropping or sourcing a square stock photo for this link was just too much

01.04.2025 14:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love that, thanks!

03.03.2025 00:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you

03.03.2025 00:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reach, oil on panel, 8 x 10” 2025
#art #painting #landscape

02.03.2025 12:38 👍 50 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks Love!

23.02.2025 04:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! This was a tricky one that waited around the studio for a couple years before I figured out how to pull it together

22.02.2025 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

morning magic

22.02.2025 15:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And I just finished a newsletter from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social reminding me that encourage literally means to instill courage

22.02.2025 14:47 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks so much!

21.02.2025 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you

21.02.2025 17:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I appreciate that. Had to look him up. Thank you for introducing me to his work.

21.02.2025 17:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks so much

21.02.2025 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

21.02.2025 15:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah it’s wild how he occasionally does the right thing

21.02.2025 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

21.02.2025 13:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Liminal, oil on panel, 12 x 18” 2023
#painting #art #landscape

21.02.2025 12:21 👍 277 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 1

So good!

20.02.2025 19:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks so much!

20.02.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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