August 27, 2010 Flowers

"If you ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it....But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." 

  -Frank Lloyd Wright

Isn't all of our artwork an investment in beauty?  Today I am doing a tribute to flowers.  My front yard is full of beautiful flowers, and I have a fish pond surrounded by them.  I have had a heron fishing in my pond the last 2 summers and he took all of my big goldfish.  But nature compensated this year, because I have about 100 babies in the pond.  I don't know what I will do with them all!  The netting is too protect the fish from the bird, it must have worked because the bird hasn't come back for a couple of months.

My front garden.  The frog is a gourd that I grew and painted.

I had trouble with my dahlias this year, one of my favorite flowers.  I planted about 9 bulbs and finally at the end of July, 1 of them bloomed!  I have 2 blooming now, and the others have buds.  Maybe I will get to see them in Sept.  We had an unusually hot summer with temps above 90 many days...maybe that's why they haven't bloomed.

My fish pond, a frog has been living here too