This week’s Letter was written August 27, 2025.

End Notes

* Original Goldenrod Painting & Open Edition Prints are now available.

* Read the residency report from last year’s Lakeside Lab Residency.

* Send me a letter: Kristin M Roach, 138 Main Street, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA.

* See this and the rest of the handwritten letters from my studio to you.

* See the full backyard botanical series.

* Purchase Originals & Prints

Passing through Central Iowa?

See my work in person at my tea shop & gallery Little Woods Herbal (136 Main Street, Ames, Iowa). Save the date for October 11 & 12th. I’ll be hosting the Ames Community Arts Council at the tea bar for the Ames Area Studio Tour & exhibiting all the backyard botanical paintings. Currently only about half are on display.

My big challenge over the next month is to finish my greeting card collection for the series and get prints of all the paintings made—no small feat! I’m almost done with reprinting all the sold out 8x10, now on to laying out and getting all the cards printed. Wish me luck!

NOTE about Monthly Mending at the Octagon Center for the Arts

The mending meeting is still happening the 4th thursday of each month, but I will not be able to attend in August in September because…

I’ve been accepted into the Iowa DNR Field to Fork program this summer and am learning archery! I didn’t get a choice about timing, they were like - you are in, show up on these dates. Okay, will do. I’ll be back in mending action in the fall.

Sincerely,

Kristin M Roach

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