Flowers really do intoxicate me. - Vita Sackville-West

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."  - Claude Monet


I surely am no Monet, but I sure do echo his sentiment.
Flowers are my "first love"......my favorite subject.
  Maybe someday I will move to another, or maybe not.
I have a laundry list of all those still waiting to be painted.

"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.  Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~Auguste Rodin