How do you like them flowers?

Sorry I haven't been posting much. I have been working on my photography blog/website for my business that I am trying to get up and running.

I hope you like the flowers.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Pond Lillies

I am finally back online and looking forward to catching up with my blogging world friends. It has been a long road of waiting on my end but I finally have internet at home again. I am so excited to be sharing my art with all of you again.

Sun-drenched and beautiful. These stargazer lilies are my favorite flower all together. This is the flower that was abundant at my Great Aunt Mary's funeral. Of course, they were fake but I brought home four of them and made a wreath with them. This wreath is hung by my front door so I see it every time I go out my door. My Aunt Mary was truly a great woman. She is my Granny's oldest sister. Shortly after my granny was born, their mother became very ill. They are not really sure what she died from but it is believed that she had cancer (this was the conclusion of Aunt Mary years later after caring for her mother-in-law in the last stages of cancer.) Now my granny really has no real recollections of her mother. She died when my granny was about two years old. My Aunt Mary was essentially my granny's mother. Aunt Mary was twelve years older than my granny. Aunt Mary was a very special lady to me because in my mind I don't know that my granny would have survived had Aunt Mary not taken on that role, seeing as how their mother was in and out of the hospital and not well during the time that she had with my granny. I loved every moment that I spent with my Aunt Mary and have wonderful memories of her telling stories about antics of my granny. I also loved to hear her tell the story of when she left the family to marry Uncle Lee, another great person in my life. Both of these people are sorely missed by all of the family but they are well remembered.

Wow, I had no idea that was in me. Not at all what I had planned to post about but obviously it needed saying. Maybe next time I'll write about how my granny tried to chop off my Great Aunt Vivian's nose. Got ya wondering now, don't I?

Smiling Lily

This is my profile image. The flower is from my gran-granny's funeral this past February. This little flower survived being used in a floral arrangement, being plucked from that arrangement, then placed on the floor of my van (this was Thursday), it stayed in this spot until I got home on late Saturday night. Then on Sunday morning I placed it in a make shift vase and by Sunday night it was smiling at me, literally. Do you see the smile? I love this photo. There is no way for me to explain it but I love this photo. And in actuality it helped to place lilies as one of my top five favorite flowers.

To see other beautiful flowers click HERE.

Opulent Orange

Elegant in White

Not much to say today, but I wanted to share another image with you all. This is another flower from my cousin's flower garden.

What A Duo

Two of my favorite flowers. Okay who am I kidding, I like all flowers, even the ones most people think of as weeds. I just like a few more than others. The lillies remind me of the fake flowers that I brought home from my Aunt Mary's funeral back in November of 1999. I rode down to Alabama with my sister and husband. They had been married less than a month, it was an interesting trip. We relied on mapquest to get us down there when we knew where we were going, why I depend on it when I now where I am at I will never know. It is nice to use as a visual to refresh my mind but I find I do better planning out the route by looking at the map and not the directions that are given on mapquest. But I digress. These flowers are from my cousins flower garden that literally wraps around her house. The lillies remind me of the flowers that I brought back and made into a floral wreath that hangs just inside my front door. I see the lillies every day. I love the color of these lillies in particular. Then again burgundies and dusty pinks/mauves are among my first choice when choosing decors. I chose this image to start with because of the combination together. I found it rather stunning.

My Profile Photo

I thought I would use today to explain my photo for my profile. I was taking pictures of the flowers that I had brought home from my Gran-granny's funeral, and I put this one into a make-shift vase and it appeared to be smiling at me. I fell in love with the photo. I didn't manipulate it or anything, I just simply placed it in the bottle and the smile just formed.

I hope it brings a smile to everyone's face.