I went to two places on my mystery trip. This and the previous post are from one of them.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I went to two places on my mystery trip. This and the previous post are from one of them.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
It did sleet on the day I took this photograph.
For Cee’s FOTD.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: beam and for Cee’s FOTD.
I am in a CSA, Community Supported Agriculture. I go pick up my box on Wednesday. Early in the year we get tulips as well as greens. I love both.
This is for Cee’s Flower Photo of the Day.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
I am blogging A to Z about artists, particularly women artists and mostly about my mother, Helen Burling Ottaway.
I am nearly done traveling and I am running out of photographs of Helen Ottaway’s work! J could be for jonquil but there are none in this watercolor. But I think it is a joyous and messy bouquet, typical of my mother. She would complain about her garden, how it was riotous chaotic beauty rather than neat rows. But I loved her garden and her bouquets and her paintings, untamed and joyous!
This watercolor is from 1994, the year before my parents moved from Alexandria, Virginia to Chimacum, Washington. My grandmother’s house two doors down from my parent’s house was sold. Someone came to my parents’ house and said, “They are ripping out the garden!” The new owners tore out the beautiful and elaborate garden that my grandmother had paid her granddaughter in law to design and build. Many uncommon plants, torn out and in a pile on the sidewalk. The whole neighborhood of gardeners turned out to take the plants home and replant them. The garden was replaced with bushes and two rows of marigolds down the path. I suspect that that household was shunned by the neighborhood gardeners for years after that and I wondered if my grandmother would haunt them. I do not have marigolds in my garden! My mother shrugged and said, “Well, they own the property.” but she could barely stand to walk by it.
I think the bouquet is from my mother’s own garden, a mix of humble and more exotic flowers. I love the purple and it gives me joy.
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I visited my friend Malene in Michigan right before the delta really got a hold on us. Malene has a fabulous garden. I am submitting this to Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge. Have a lovely Monday.
School starts here tomorrow. Happy Labor Day.
Poor roses, caged! Well, it’s the only way to keep the deer from biting off all the blooms. I have to work on the fences today because the fawns can slide under. They will be getting bigger and want the vitamin C in the roses soon.
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Taking the camera for a walk!!!
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