I spend all summer taking colorful photos of the flowers in my flower bed. Now it’s November and the days are short, grey, and gloomy.
I only posted a tiny fraction of the pictures I took, and there is no reason for this color and light to be stored away and forgotten. We needed it then, and we need it even more now.
Zinnia and I are about to head to the Mansion this morning for my meditation class, but I dug out this early photograph of my beautiful Nasturtiums before we go.
I’m going to post a flower picture several times a week, all through the winter. No reason to hide the color and light.
This is the first day of what I call my Winter Color And Light Project.
I think these particular flowers were meant to light us up and lift our spirits.
You are invited to come along. My photos are free; you can use them any way you want. Some people paint them, print them out, and use them as screen savers.
None of my photos are bookmarked or copyrighted; they are gifts to my readers, many of whom have put up with me for years.
You are generous in so many ways
Thank you for the color and light as we head into darker days.
Thank you so much for posting lovely flower photos. I especially need this right now, since I have covid, despite all my extreme care and all 5 vaccines, since the start of the pandemic. Started before Thanksgiving, ended up in the hospital for 3 days that Friday, have had 2 blood transfusions and when I got home, realized I had an eye problem, had to make a flying trip an hour to our south to an MD eye doctor, who said it was not the detached retina I feared, but rather I’d had a stroke in the blood vessel of that eye, and it cannot be fixed. Since I love to read, this is hard, but that was yesterday and I’m already coping better. I remind myself my dad’s been blind in one eye since he was 2 years old, and I can still see out of half of that eye’s vision, as well as the other eye, so I will just have to cope. I know how lucky I am in many ways, but this is just a hard stretch of challenges I have to get thru.
Thanks again for beautiful flower photos.
Melissa