Flowers

 

From the Archives

     the tattered butterfly rested on the zinnia
       and reflected its special color

Flowery Memories

Artichokes, when ignored,

turn into flowers

Sunflowers

As I feel a deep ache for Mom, and the pain she has suffered,
I think of flowers and colors.
Flowers, because she so loves flowers
and nature, and nature's beauty.
Colors, because she took tubes of oil paints
and painstakingly squirted a dabs of paint on her palette,
mixing with the brush as she worked them into
new colors
and laid them down on the canvas,
the smell of oils and turpentine in our nostrils,
I loved to watch her do that.

Summers Flowers & Road sign

Mosquitoville Road
is that near copperhead road?

Peonies, Bleeding Hearts, rhubarb in the front, horseradish in the back.

Spring Flowers

Tulips (above)

Forsythia (yellow flowers above)

Both need the cold to be dormant long enough to live later

when they come alive

as the rays of sunshine creep up at a higher angle each day

And these glorious short lived flowers appear

And make humans express delightment.

Happy Spring