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Pollinator Garden Wildflower Seeds & Shelter Pets This Spring

Spring in Sonoma

Our celebration of Spring begins this year with the collaboration between Art of Leisure, Sonoma Syrup Co., Sonoma Ecology Center, as well as 38 shops, wineries and hotels in Sonoma Valley as we share 450 native California wildflower pollinator garden gifts with the community. Each of these gifts, when planted, will help to support the habitat of our pollinator friends in the air.  This year, these seeds are especially helpful for our native bees who are constantly foraging for their food.

Look for this flyer in the window or on property at the locations below:

pollinator garden

Wildflower Pollinator Garden Gift Partners 2026

Sign of The Bear
Sonoma Martial Arts Studio
Summer Vine
Prohibition Spirits Distillery
Refill Madness
Caddis Winery
Sonoma Valley Visitors Bureau
Woof – Sonoma
Sonoma Valley Farmers Market
Plain Jane’s
Edward Jones, Lindsey Stone
Sonoma Syrup Co.
Readers Books

Eraldi’s Men’s Wear & Shoes
The Loop Sonoma
Vintage House
Chateau Sonoma
Half-Pints Sonoma
Tiddle E. Winks
Valley Swim Club
Sonoma Garden Park
J. James
Lori Austin Gallery
Ledson Hotel
Sonoma Law Partners
The Chocolate Cow

Shopkeeper Studio

Baker & Cook
El Dorado Kitchen and Hotel
Sonoma Country Antiques
Sonoma Mission Inn Hotel & Spa
Valley Bar + Bottle Restaurant
Café La Haye
Arader Galleries, Saint Helena
Jim Callahan – Sculptor
Art of Leisure
Artefact Design & Salvage
Bartholomew Estate Winery
Cafe Mac

pollinator garden in Sonoma

Sonoma pollinator gardens

Sonoma pollinators

Also, just because they are such sweet animals, here are a few of my recently delivered Pet Portraits and a darling kitty from a few years ago.

pollinating insects
Jewel was a sweet kitty at Pets Lifeline in Sonoma.   She did find a home.
wildflower garden
This special kitty enjoyed the company of visitors to a popular hotel & spa in Sonoma.  She was adopted by a wonderful person.
bees in Sonoma
Such beautiful eyes on this shepherd!  She has a lovely home and life in California.

butterfly garden

Pollinator gardens

Wishing you a wonderful spring; thank you for your help in supporting a thriving habitat with your own pollinator garden; and, consider sharing your heart with a dog or cat in need of a home!

Art of Leisure Paintings

Paintings
Happy, adopted 2019

Art of Leisure has always been circling around home and the leisure lifestyle in Sonoma and Napa Valley.  This naturally includes the physical structure of a home, the spirit of its occupants including pets, surrounding gardens, and the thriving wine country community.  Below, you will see my oil paintings of pets, very much a part of a healthy and happy home life.  Our four footed friends are an important element of our lives, as noted by artists and authors over the centuries.

For many years, I have endeavored to help the shelter pet community.  Many afternoons, I would visit the shelter, sit with an animal, paint a plein air painting of it and share a print with the person who eventually gave it a new home.  This practice developed into the creation of my Shelter Pet Cards, sold at such shops as:

Now I am bringing this service to those who would like to memorialize a moment in their and their pet’s life.  Hopefully, a delightful, happy occasion in which I can help bring your pet to life in a pet portrait painting.

Animal Paintings
Bella

 

Pet Paintings
Buttercup, adopted 2015

 

Pet Portraits
Charley, adopted 2019

 

Dog Paintings
Black Dog, adopted 2015

 

Cat Paintings
Emily, adopted 2017

 

Consignment Pet Portraits
Gibbs, adopted 2018

 

Animal Art
Jack, adopted 2019

 

Cat Art
Jewel, adopted 2019

 

Cat Paintings
Mariah, adopted 2019

 

Dog Portraiture
Maui, adopted 2019

 

Cat Portraiture
Miss Emmy, adopted 2017

 

Painting of your pet
Oliver, adopted 2015

 

Peaches, adopted 2019

 

Pinky Pie, adopted 2019

 

Rigo, adopted 2015

 

Sadie, adopted 2019