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SIGNS OF SPRING.....finally Spring is late this year, but it's finally warm enough to go for a walk without a jacket........The white flowers are Fawn Lillies that grow on the edges of forest, the pink ones are Salmon-Berry and of course everyone knows the quotidian Dante de Lion......The green buds are Western Maple .....They are huge packets of leaves and flowers unfurling.......One of my favourites.......I have painted all these at one time or another....they sell like hotcakes....especially of the lillies..........        |
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Those maple buds are about 4 inches tall......when the leaves unfurl a bit more, the flower, which is a fleshy raceme, stands up between the leaves like an erect, chartreuse, light-filled phallus. it grows taller and thicker and then, one day when it is warmed by the sun, it reaches a crescendo and gravity takes over and the long raceme flops over and it transforms into golden femininity availing itself to the sun and the hovering bees.
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"Each nest is twitterin', They're all baby-sitterin', Spring, Spring, Spring." Beautiful photos Sparkle. 
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What you couldn't add, but I could hear were the sounds. Lovely pictures. Spring teased us here, but then retreated, laughing as she sent some snow, torrential rains, and now freezing temperatures. But time does move on, and eventually warm weather will arrive. Then I can complain about the HEAT. LOL. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Beautiful flowers! Thanks for sharing! "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
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What you couldn't add, but I could hear were the sounds. Lovely pictures. Spring teased us here, but then retreated, laughing as she sent some snow, torrential rains, and now freezing temperatures. But time does move on, and eventually warm weather will arrive. Then I can complain about the HEAT. LOL. Decades later, I was reading a book by someone who had spent years among the peoples of the Canadian Arctic......and there I discovered a description of the same phenomena.......that sitting on the ground too early in the Spring could cause temporary lunacy........
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All they are gorgeous flowers! It seems the Spring gladdens flowers. Nice photos. Thanks for sharing.  Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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The clarity of the photos is a feast for the eyes ~ such beauty. I am especially taken by the fawn lily's simple elegance.
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The clarity of the photos is a feast for the eyes ~ such beauty. I am especially taken by the fawn lily's simple elegance.
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'They thrive close to the beach and one time when I was sitting on the ground sketching them, I glimpsed a sail-boat in the distance right behind the lily and the petal I was drawing was exactly the same colour, size and shape as the forward sail of the boat.......I went home and made many drawings and paintings that incorporated that imagery........' So momentarily the two images became perfectly aligned before the forward sail emerged from behind to continue its journey ~ how amazing, did it have the effect of bringing a surreal quality to the sketch at the time? I like that you replicated/included the imagery in your artwork.
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'They thrive close to the beach and one time when I was sitting on the ground sketching them, I glimpsed a sail-boat in the distance right behind the lily and the petal I was drawing was exactly the same colour, size and shape as the forward sail of the boat.......I went home and made many drawings and paintings that incorporated that imagery........' So momentarily the two images became perfectly aligned before the forward sail emerged from behind to continue its journey ~ how amazing, did it have the effect of bringing a surreal quality to the sketch at the time? I like that you replicated/included the imagery in your artwork.
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