Flower Impressions

With record breaking temperatures outside in the Twin Cities, today was a beautiful day to stay indoors sleeping in late, playing around with my camera, finishing a good book, and spending quiet time in meditation.

Flower Impressions

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her… I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ”
– Claude Monet

It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ”
– Claude Monet

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ”
– Claude Monet

“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
― Claude Monet

“Every day I discover
more and more
beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything,
my head is bursting with it.”
― Claude Monet

“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. ”
― Claude Monet

“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
― Claude Monet, Monet By Himself

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
― Claude Monet

May you walk in beauty.

Note: Photographs are of begonia flowers on the plant my sweet and ever loving Jon gave me for our 40th anniversary! Happy Anniversary Sweetie! So glad to be on this journey with you.