More spring inspiration

Two spring images (above).

The birch tree collage combines folk art painting

and collage and was completed last year.

The iris picture is simple with appealing colours.

Below is a shot of a property adjacent to a garden
I was invited to photograph by the owner.
I find the juxtaposition of the harsh wall and window
with the delicate hyacinths in multiple colours to be
a pleasing if somewhat edgy composition.

More thoughts on spring and beauty from Freeman Patterson excerpted from

"the garden" (p.17):

"By late winter and very early spring I not only enjoy the flowers blooming in my sunroom, I need them. My sense of well-being depends on having plants living, growing, and blooming around me, especially when there are none flowering out of doors.

We grow plants, especially flowering plants, in our gardens,greenhouses and windows because they are beautiful. Beauty never requires justification, because it balances the ugliness, hurtand sorrow that are present in every human life to a greater or lesser degree.

Without beauty as inspiration and refuge, our deprived souls grow hard and cold, and often we transfer, or project, our unacknowledgedsuffering onto others, especially those with whom we live and work.

Beauty is invariably a positive factor, an enriching presence, a healing influence. It is true in music, painting and dance, of clouds in the skyand birds singing in the light of dawn ,of flowers, even humble geraniums in kitchen windows."

Have a happy-to-finally-be-spring-see-the beauty- kind of day.

Helen.