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.

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…

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…

as an artist, i am…

…isolated, most of the time. Art is a lonely profession, but it also gives me a lot of time to live in my own head. Sometimes to shut it up, i sleep. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day. So i am thinking of him. i think he wouldn’t be happy with us (humans), our…

the cat with thumbs

the last picture? look at his face, i grossed him out…he is thinking, “eeeewwww”

“Let me narrow this down for you Southerners”

Winter in Alabama is so crazy. It can be 70F one day, then 30F degrees the next. Jack Frost took the pepper mint candy color out of my flower. Crazy weather tricked this to flower too soon. Crazy weather…but no one said it better than my friend Molly as seen above on her Facebook page….

the cardinal reveals himself

i saw the red behind the green & hoped he would come closer, like the feeder. But amazingly, he put himself in the perfect frame. AND anyone know what kind of bird is at my feeder?

meet Phoebe

and no, Mom…she isn’t mine.  gosh, she is such a snuggle…bunny. The kids belong to me.