mixed signals

you know…i have come to find i like signs telling me what to do. because i’m at the age where i walk into a room & forgot why. Perhaps i should start putting post it notes on my forehead so that i know what i’m doing. ~amy  

the shy one

So shy, is the Lentin Rose…i try hard to find a point of a spring flower who fears the sunlight. these are forced, with wire, to face me. a bit like putting a finger under the chin of a small child, to lift the face & be astonished by their beauty. happy spring Alabama

the grocery store

These were taken at Western Supermarket. The great thing about walking into this flower departments is that it is almost all natural light. Another bonus? The fridge walls are black, which mean awesome contrast.

Fuego Cantina & Saloon…

#buylocal…i’m in awe of private local business owners. they deserve much respect for their kick ass courage. but more than that, they deserve our custom, our support. imagine how awesome it would feel to drink locally owned beer(s), in a locally owned Saloon..sit back & watch what they do best, which is serve up some…

this is an african violet flower

i posted this flower about three weeks ago, titled, “what am i?” Then my blog broke. This is the amazing part, this one flower was connected to another…like the letter Y, with two flowers at the top of the Y. This wee flower lived for two weeks…as it began to collapse on itself, its twin…

how i found you…stunning

the first images are the orchids they way i found them. then i started to play. can you blame me? i didn’t think so. sigh. i love this last one, with the disco light painting my walls with polkadots. ~amy

to survive anyway i can…

i have an old fashion prism on my kitchen window. after my art class ended i walked into my kitchen @4:30pm…and, damn…my rainbow prism landed across two tiny orchids. These photos were taken with my iphone, and i will admit to moving the plants around with this set of flowers. the white dots on my…

double, double, toil & no trouble at all

Weather is something we all talk about. small talk? the mundane? i don’t think so. Winter is here, which means that the heat sucks the moisture out of my body, making me grow scales & when i look at my hands…they look like witches hands. Old & scaly. or a lizard’s tail. but on my…