daffodils and contorted willow

The slender branches of our little contorted willow tree are a good foil for daffodils or other spring flowers. I converted the photo to a colour pencil sketch in Picasa.

[Karen B.]

A lovely display but omg, all I can think about is the beautiful Mrs Jones you so beautifully captured recently.

[linda]

lovely , I like what you have done here - it does like a painting.

[Karin Hirsch]

Very lovely flower arrangement, like the softness

[Hazel]

@kbroges

It's OK, Karen, I'm learning that any flower pics I post now are just a pale second best to the residents of Liberty's raptor centre - never thought the birds would be so popular.

[Penelope Ann]

What a talented lady! This arrangement would grace any home.

[Hazel]

@pennystot

The branches and daffs did all the work!

[Penelope Ann]

@quietpurplehaze if only! My arrangements tend to look a bit like a dog's breakfast!

[Henrietta]

very pretty! love the lines of the table converging to the bouquet.

[Graham Thresher]

Love your processing.

[Julie Duncan]

Gorgeous and quite evocative, Hazel! Stirs up dead roots! ;)

[Hazel]

@pennystot

I'll come clean now: we went into a restaurant in Ringwood for a bit of lunch after the visit to the raptor centre and they had a huge square glass vase with contorted branches, big pink lilies and snapdragon flowers. I got the idea from that and just cut some contorted willow from our little tree in the garden, put the bits in a vase and lowered the daffodils around them using the willow as a frame. The daffs are dead as dodos today so I think I'll treat myself to some tulips!

[Hazel]

@juliedduncan

Dead roots? Please explain!

[wendy frost]

Pretty daffodil shot depicts spring

[Penelope Ann]

@quietpurplehaze I am still well impressed!

[Margaret Brown]

Beautiful Hazel

[Julie Duncan]

@quietpurplehaze Ok, so I totally misquoted T.S. Eliot:
"April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain . . ."
True, they aren't lilacs, but daffodils. But, still. :)

[Hazel]

@juliedduncan

Good - didn't know it, shall find the rest, thanks!

[Pyrrhula]

You did a great and nice job , Hazel. The next with pencils ?

[Mary Downing Hahn]

Such delicate daffodils, such a pretty sight.

[Molly]

I really like the processing and the arrangement of the daffodils.

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome picture.

[Julie Duncan]

@quietpurplehaze Sorry, it's from "The Waste Land". :)