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Thanks to my facebook flower friends, I know now what this flower is: a balloon flower. I love the color and form of the balloon bud. In cropping the photo, I liked the shapes, colors, and positioning of these buds. Since I took the photo, the purple one has opened up. Beautiful.
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One more coneflower that’s getting close to opening. I had a sense of the coneflower singing outward in this one. What do you see?
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It seems I never tire of coneflower close-ups.
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Another milkweed flower photo, but these buds haven’t quite opened. Still intriguing! A milkweed bud bouquet.
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Prompted by a facebook 7-day “nature photo” challenge (thanks, Janice), this is the first of seven photos I took in our backyard today. I know I should probably take a photo each of seven days, but that’s not happening (at least I can’t count on it happening). But in addition to fulfilling the nature photo challenge, I now have seven daily janes in a row! Haven’t done that in awhile.
We have one milkweed plant in back (courtesy of the previous owner, I imagine—or the wind). Having seen milkweed almost exclusively (as far as I knew, anyway) in autumn when the signature pods are present, I was delighted to see these blooms forming then opening.
acrylic, ink, original poems on matboard (various sizes)
Okay, this is cheating a little. This week I took three previous daily janes from past years and lettered poems onto them to post here. Soon these three are likely going to the Octagon Center for the Arts gallery shop in Ames.
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I took this photo of a not-quite-open peony before the wind and hail and rain storms of the past few days. It’s nice to see a peony looking so fresh and new again.
8×14″ acrylic on paper
A little brush, a little palette knife, a little energy. Pure play.
4×4″ acrylic, marker
Blobs and lines and dots and dashes and highlights and washes—that’s what this is made of.
8×6″ acrylic, marker on paper
A shape like each of these appeared in my mind last weekend, so here is a first attempt to get it on paper. It’s not quite right (not exactly the shape I saw), but I enjoyed the process of painting it anyway (for the most part).
They remind me of “wildflowers” or what some call weeds. Resistant. Persistent. They find a way to live in the harshest of environments. And thrive. And spread. Yep.