Tending Beauty in an Uncertain World
Like many of you, I struggle to balance myself in this uncertain world where the rule of law and so …
Tag Archives: flowers
Dreaming Roses, Beauty Past Knowing
My roses are spent already this summer, and I miss them. Another summer not long ago I spend a day …
Truth & Beauty, My Flower Paintings
If “Beauty is truth, truth, beauty,” as Keats’ poem claims, then what do my paintings of flowers, my attempt to …
In Some Poetic Sense, Flowers Invented Love
Flowers are on my mind, after the super-bloom outing last month, after reading The Language of Flowers for book club, …
Yellow & Blue & Orange, O My! Super-Bloom Wildflowers
On Good Friday, my husband and I went searching for spring wildflowers in the hills of California. We do it …
Beauty the Brave, the Exemplary, Bursting Open
What is it about the fragile, fleeting, and flagrant beauty of flowers that can so break a heart? I wrote …
Like Flowers Falling Everywhere: A Poem
Everywhere I look I see you, I see us. This fragile hand, this blue pen, this yellow pad. These fingers …
Three Florals & Two Landscapes
As summer was turning to fall most of my painting was focused on florals and learning to create with acrylics. …
Still Playing – Still Life and Florals
I’m still “studying the masters” and playing with style. Most recently with two contemporary artists. The first is a floral …
Riffing on Roses
Lately I’ve been playing with roses, photographing them at different stages in bloom, at different times of day, against varied backgrounds, just …
