Praise the Lord:: for it is good to sing praises to our God, it is pleasant and suitable… He heals the broken in heart and makes their wounds comfortable…
Great is our Lord, and of great power, His understanding is infinite.
Psalm 147 : 1, 3, 5 ( Sandy’s choice and understanding )
Flowers say I remember
Before memory
You brought me into this world
You are
my beginning
Mother
before my time of remembering
Thank you for my coming in!
Sandy 19 March 2023 for
7 April 1956
Photographing these tulips as individuals brought me closer to them.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
Leonardo Da Vinci Italian inventor, architect, artist…
No flattening but still there is stillness in all the movement .
A white flower grows in the quietness.
Rumi
Their colour is maroon but not all the time because it holds a delicate white with many minute vein ridges .
When making experiences, attention to detail matters.
Richard Branson.
Tomorrow they will have opened more and taken other shapes.
They are standing alone with no support so they can move as they wish.
A wonderful gift in a group and as individuals.
As Henri Matisse said: ” You study you learn , but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you…. as love is in the lover.”
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
I dedicate this post to my dear late Mum. She lives on in my sister and me. We often remember what she said and sometimes wonder what she would have done in different situations. We are not too old to remember Mum.
Sandy 🙂
ROADS WE TRAVEL AND DESTINATIONS REACHED 
Love your poem and painting! Yes, I often think of Mom in different situations, sometimes with a laugh, sometimes a cry. She’s gone eighteen years in a couple of weeks.
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Yes, she closed her eyes and went to sleep till Jesus comes just before my birthday. You were so kind to have everything ready so we didn’t bury her on that day.
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I forgot to say thank you for liking my poem and painting it seemed irrelevant when thinking of that day together.
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Your arrangement and painting are delightful, Sandy. The close shots of the tulips truly remind me of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. She is one of my favorite artists.
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You know I was sitting with them on a book on my lap just playing with how they looked through the lens and I couldn’t believe my own eyes when I saw how lovely they looked. Glad you liked them too.
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Those tulips are so beautiful and the way they like to twist and turn in a flower pot to suit themselves show some guts😜😇 Good to remember our dear Mothers 🌷🌸
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Yes it was good to put them in something big. Space and freedom! Thank you for your comments good friend.
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Lovely tribute to your Mum 🥰 Beautiful arrangement!
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Thank you Donna.
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These flowers are beautiful! I love how you showed us the close-up shots and then all of them together arranged so sweetly in the bowl. Great painting too!
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Thank you. I am enjoying the time I spend with the flower painting it. I feel I see so much more.
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