Big mountain fava bean “tofu” marinated in “joy sauce,” coconut aminos, and a sprinkle of msg then pan fried. Set on jasmine rice and wrapped with nori seaweed. Next time we’ll incorporate some just egg 😋
I wanted to get a custom art piece made for my partner (and me) for our anniversary, there are a ton of great artists out there but none that were quite what I was looking for. I stumbled upon a piece Rodrigo made for someone of their character and then looking at his artstation https://rodzzer.artstation.com/ page I saw he had quite a range and was exactly what I was looking for.
I reached out with an idea of how I wanted the image to look, but didn’t have exact poses just a bunch of examples of the kind of vibe I was going for. He was super easy to work with. Not only is he talented at art he’s also good at asking questions, coming up with ideas, making you feel comfortable about the process, and taking an abstract vision and bringing it together to create an image.
It was a lot of fun seeing it come together and working together to make it happen (him doing the actual work of course but he was so good at incorporating things I wanted or editing things I didn’t love, and I never felt bad or pressured to have it one way or another).
I normally play a worgen but she’s not exactly cute 😅 so I went with my alt Druid. I knew I wanted my wings as I always wear them and I wanted the specific staff of Elune. For his character, he plays a death knight as a main although he transmogs much more than me. I found his favorite armor set is 7th Legion Plate and wanted that to be in this piece but when Rodrigo did the initial sketch it was looking a little paladin-y so I asked if we could incorporate the apocalypse sword to give it a little more in the DK. He was able to get it in well and added the skull flare to the glasses - he asked what I thought about it and I thought it was great. Funny enough, on the big reveal to my partner it was one of the first things he noticed and goes “dang why don’t I have skulls on my real glasses?” 😂 there are so many other personal little details that make this piece wonderful. ❤️
(Yes, he’s strongly Alliance and that’s Eversong woods just outside Silvermoon, but I think the trees are gorgeous and love the new area and I was the one with design power so xP and the factions are…tolerating each other right now, so there. lol)
I live in the PNW (NW WA state more specifically) and there have been at least three Anna’s (2 females and a male) that have visited my feeder daily. Usually 1 or 2 every morning, not all at the same time.
I haven’t seen them in about a week.
It has been much sunnier out though, I have some honeysuckle as well as some other flowers in bloom. But not a ton of flowers.
I have my suspicions that maybe it’s because there is now more abundance of flowers for them elsewhere they’re grazing on (and I need to up my flower garden game). But just wanted to see if that’s even a thing?