Flower bed with poppies, cornflowers and strawberries -  Jette Stoltz , n/d.

Swedish , 1923-2010

Oil on canvas ,  116 x 89 cm..

Flowerbed 🌸🌺🌷🦌

Flower Bed

liminal garden // 02/26/23

引地川親水公園 藤沢市大庭 花壇の花々

富士フィルム X-Pro3 XF35mmF1.4R

2024年2月下旬 撮影

※近隣ファミレスでランチ：鉄板ハンバーグミックスグリルランチ※

Olive bed

As I'm drawing and reading the Odyssey, I'm where Penelope is testing Odysseus to see if it's really him, he is angered to think she moved the bed but she didn't

In my copy the bed is really detailed and as a sucker for fluff, I'm sketching an idea.

He cut the tree but let a part live, as they are quite sturdy so the canopy is a full of twigs and leaves pf the olive, in the sides and perímeter, honeysuckles and scented vines creeped around the the shoots that make the perimeter of the bed.

The cloths that are hanging were made by Penelope ( Ody doesn't know this), they are translucent as breezy as they can and around the bed, flowers and a mini garden has grown thanks to Penelope's hand.

So not only Odysseus finds the bed in it's place but also the plants, flowers and curtains that Penelope has made in all those years, filled with sweetests of scents as she has been preparing all this years. (Representing Penelope's faithfulness and love for him).

He only made the structure and the frames, but she has been the one tending it as she didn't let anyone in the palace to know.

Epcot's colorful floral displays ۪۫❁ཻུ۪✾⚘༉

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Sunny's their little meow-meow

I wanna read there

The abundant recent rains have brought forth more beauty. 7/13/23

Spring 4 seasons in the neighborhood, Japan

There’s plenty

   When I was tiny I’d get overwhelmed by spring flowers and want to pick them. My mom had a tiny patch of daffodils (I don’t know why they hadn’t multiplied; they usually do) and she didn’t want me to pick them because they were so few.

   When I moved away from home one of my first thoughts for my place was to plant spring bulbs. So MANY spring bulbs. I planted daffodils and hyacinth, grape hyacinth by the dozen, day lilies, crocus . . so many. Daffodils and grape hyacinths in particular tend to do well and multiply in this area. And by the time I had kids, there were spring flowers galore. One time when my daughter was tiny I gave her a big bunch of grape hyacinths and let her pick each tiny blossom of the stem in a surge of blue toddler destruction. She was quiet and focused for the better part of half an hour (solid gold for an exhausted mom.)

   Last week one of her friends came over. They were out picking flowers together, two high school seniors on the verge of heading out into the world. Her friend was afraid to pick “too many.” “Take all you want!” my daughter told her, “there’s plenty!”

   When she thought it over later, she came and told me about it, and thanked me for making sure she always had ‘plenty.’ Solid gold for a mom.