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"Texas Blue Bonnets"
5" x 5"
Oil on hardboard |
This afternoon, despite the cold weather, and being in want of a diversion, I made my first trip of the year to the Botanic Gardens. I took 246 photos and some of them were of … yup, Texas Blue Bonnets. I never expected to see them with my own eyes, nor to smell them or touch them, but there they were on this, the 17th of May. Who knew they could grow in Illinois? Or would even … want to. They smelled faintly like my childhood memory of cattle silage. Oh, the memories those blue flowers dredged up when I inhaled. I'll look for them every year now that I know they'll come to my zip code.
I usually take about three hundred photos during a two hour excursion, so today was a light day. But there wasn't that much TO photograph for a girl who likes to paint whorled flowers. Although, the ranunculus were fabulous. They just have way too many petals. There are, however, about 100,000 springtime flowers in bloom right now — worth the membership.
Carol
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