My front flower beds are in glorious bloom these days. The abundance of rain this spring and relatively cool temps, until this week, jump-started the blooming season early and it has continued non-stop. Starting with the tulips months ago the color flow has shifted from pinks into purples with a large pop factor of neon orange poppies.
I am constantly inspired by the color but, alas, I'm not a water-colorist who can capture the glory of hue and shape on paper. I am a colorist though and use the inspiration found through the seasons in other ways.
I've been having fun photographing not only the flowers but the foliage - the greens, the textures - and plan to use those images in my collages...
I've been having fun photographing not only the flowers but the foliage - the greens, the textures - and plan to use those images in my collages...I hope there are flowers in everyone's life for whatever inspiration is needed - for joy or for art. 
I love the way you use color, Karen. Remember the tea towel embroidery days...Aunt Ethel's pillowcases always showing up at Christmas. And the quilts that one Fern Key used profligately. We lugged it around to picnics until it probably fell apart. It had a certain smell I can still remember...a damp fustiness. Like the times we played movie star at my house and dressed ourselves from the dirty clothes hamper...that smell. And do you remember looking in Fern's closet at her fancy dresses?
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