i have a vase of tulips that are almost past their time. moving the vase to the side, a stem broke and fell followed by another bloom. what to do? i put them in shot glass with water and placed the glass beside the bamboo while i try to plot what to do for my bamboo post tonight. looking at the two flowers it reminded me of ikebana. don't you think? ikebana is the japanese art of flower arrangement. it reminds me i have to find my pin frogs, i might want to do an ikebana for a painting. or might not.
speaking of ikebana and painting, i've sent out a couple of cards which i personalized by painting on them with the person's favourite flowers. one sent me an email with a funny story -- when he received the card he opened it and it made him smile because he loved sunflowers. he placed it beside his computer but a couple of days later, he thought it probably was how the sun hit the card, when he suddenly realized that he now was in possession of an original summerfield painting. so i emailed him back matching his story about a friend of mine in alabama who almost (almost, not quite) threw away the card i sent her because it came with a bunch of flyers.
another lady at church had been telling our friends that she received a personalized birthday card from me, which was a painting of an ikebana flower arrangement. i think i should now prepare myself for more card painting.
itiofd, i only stuck the fully-bloomed tulip in the bamboo vase. the other one remained in the shot glass and was placed strategically behind the bamboo to make it look like a real flower arrangement.
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belatedly tagging this for this week's conceptual prompt of the 52 captures.
Very elegant! I took one look at my "heart" card and knew you'd painted it. "Oh boy! I have a Summerfield!" I thought. It's hanging in the Get Well Gallery right now.
You might have to get new friends if your old ones are throwing your cards away!