We grow many of the flowers you see and our friends are generous to let us pick flowers in their gardens. Take a look at some of the titles and you'll see friends' names, and street names where we've lived and where my gardens have been (we’ve moved around a bit in the last couple of years).

 

Even at 5" x 7" card size you can see the close-up detail of the plants and flowers--their veins, water droplets, stems and leaves. They’re not perfect flowers, they’ve lived a bit and that brings more visual interest to me.

I enjoy and appreciate many artists and photographers and many kinds of art, but I always go back to Matisse, Gauguin, and Imogen Cunningham when I want to bask in imagery.