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Friday July 4th
I'm still very busy in the domestic front these days, alternating between gardening outdoors and purging indoors. My studio is looking less like a hurricane hit it, but I can't speak yet for the areas where the returning family has moved in, for it is hard to downsize!
All this work during a heat wave too! This morning we had a light shower but it's still humid and too warm in the house. Taking a break from work, I was sitting on our deck and spotted the first bloom on my young tibouchina plant - a deep velvety purple that this camera could not capture accurately - but here it is.
Wishing a happy Independence Day to my American family, friends and readers!
Posted by Marja-Leena on July 4, 2008 3:37 PM
Comments
Wow - gorgeous!
Posted by: Wandering Coyote | 16:44 04 July 2008
I'm very much in tune with what you are up to these days. We don't have the heat, however, which is a real blessing. My mother returns on Thursday night, so I have to manage all those piles of things before then. This time it is mostly books and fabrics which have to be recycled. I'm really trying not to 'shove in a corner till later' this time, because it's about time I learned that that way madness lies!
The flowers are such a delight, though. I have new sweet peas which I'm wondering how to capture. I love both the colours and linear elements of your photo.
Posted by: Olga | 00:10 05 July 2008
mm love the colour
Posted by: rosie | 08:08 05 July 2008
Wandering and Rosie: thanks for the comments and visits!
Olga, I really appreciate your sharing your own similar trials for they do encourage me to carry on. Slowly I'm getting used to having a full house, even preparing the old hide-a-bed (which we're trying to get rid off) for a short visit from a sister-in-law. She's just lucky to have a bed right now! Even my husband, a worse packrat than I, is getting the purging bug. He's just sold an old moped which he's stored in the garage for years, a good time right now with people cutting back on driving cars! Amidst all this, l still hope to have some time this summer to get back to the printmaking studio to finish a couple of editions.
Posted by: marja-leena | 14:25 05 July 2008
Still a lovely purple, even if not as gorgeous as the original.
Continuing good courage with the clearout!
Posted by: Lucy | 01:22 07 July 2008
That is lovely! Best wishes for all the settling in, and for time to get away into your studio.
Posted by: leslee | 04:20 07 July 2008
Lucy and Leslee, thank you both!
Posted by: marja-leena | 14:25 07 July 2008