The leaves of the iris flourish in the late July heat. The stateliness of the flower stalk gets lost in all the green, so I paint it, instead. Today, news of the new British prince, crazy politics, but in the garden, peace, the irises, small bunnies resting in the dappled light.
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July 2013
07/25/2013
Irises
The leaves of the iris flourish in the late July heat. The stateliness of the flower stalk gets lost in all the green, so I paint it, instead. Today, news of the new British prince, crazy politics, but in the garden, peace, the irises, small bunnies resting in the dappled light.
07/18/2013
Sheet, sun, wind
Crazy hot here. The breeze moves in the smallest of increments.
07/16/2013
An Appetite for Twining
Very hot here these last few days. The garden droops a bit, but the vines continue their twining.
07/11/2013
07/06/2013
A web of sunlight
On Friday morning, the tree trimmers were coming to take down a branch of the magnolia tree that had been blown down in a storm a week or so ago. They also planned to take out one dead limb, a large limb, of the apple tree in our backyard. In the morning, I went out to take one last look at the limb and found this perfect web.
