Georgia O'Keefe...

 

 

 

Georgia O'Keeffe point of view...

 

Georgia O'Keeffe on looking closely at, what Jim Harrison calls, the "small gods" ...

A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower — the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower — lean forward to smell it — maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking — or give it to someone to please them. Still — in a way — nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small — we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small.

So I said to myself — I’ll paint what I see — what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it — I will make even busy New-Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

A journal.  There is no more important tool to carry everywhere you go.

(thank you Hammock Papers)

 

Flowers...

Pretty in pinks, peonies, poppies, petunias...

portulaca, plumbago, pansies,et al, et cetera
and so on.

*ahem* sorry. Got a teeny bit carried away.

This is all about Sparrow's Haiku Challenge for the week.

.........................The topic is FLOWERS.......................

It's time to VOTE for your favorite haiku of the week.
Be there before 11 pm Thursday. And, remember, the
winner has a Deluxe Care Package sent in their name
to a member of our great military serving in harm's way.

my entry:

spotlights of color
snuggled in greens, praise the sun,
dream under the moon.