Yogo Magpie

Welcome!

Hello! My name is Heather. Here, you'll find my digital garden, where I write about my favorite things.

I am an artist and although you'll see some of my work here, most of my paintings live on a different website:
HeatherFranzen.com.

Who am I?

current thought


Maxwell the Cat, who in real life is named Jess

website news

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June 8, 2025
New magpie news announcer for the home page--Me, the one talking to you right now! Also, there is now an [empty] Art Fight page in the digital garden.

May 18, 2025
New tea review about white2tea's 2023 La Sombra; a new bird page, Grackles.

April 20, 2025
New garden plot: Birds. New bird page, too, Chickadees, which so far contains one nice photo of a chickadee I took last month. Finally, a new Tea review about white2tea's 2024 She Graduates, a mystery dragon ball I found in my drawer.

March 8, 2025
Finally updated the Tea page with my backlog of tea photos and notes! There are now 14 different tea reviews!

Click here for an archive of previous news announcements.

drawing of a magpie

A note about links:
Blue links are external and will open in a new tab or window.
Pink links are internal and will bring you to other pages on my website.