On Canada’s National Day of Mourning 🇨🇦 fifty fallen camellia petals to honor and remember the fifty health care heroes who have died from COVID-19 this past year one of whom was Diana Law, a wonderful caring and dedicated nurse from Peace Arch Hospital, a daughter, wife, mother and sister. She is the first nurse in British Columbia to die from COVID-19 and the second in Canada. Today’s post is dedicated to her memory and to the memory of all of the heroes whose families are mourning today, as we also take this opportunity to say thank you to all of our frontline heroes who continue to be there for us every single day.
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world art day
On World Art Day, a little plein air drawing of our glorious camellias…
…inspired by “a bramble,” circa 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci whose birthday it is today.
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
my camelliaddiction is back
Our camellias are more abundant than ever this year and some of you will know that whilst they are blooming I can’t deny my camilliaddiction.
Here is one of many camellia posts from four years ago entitled:
camelliaspectives
For this week’s Discover Challenge: Perspective Ben states “We each inhabit a specific vantage point from which we blog” and asks What’s yours? As those of you who follow my blog will know my vantage point is always both visual and written, so in response to Ben’s question I thought I would express my camelliaddiction once again today with pen, ink, watercolor and photography, with one final image that is clearly very much about perspective.
camellia studies 31.3.16
From Yardwork to Artwork: Collage
Collage of today’s pruned camellia branches together with past watercolor studies.
Waste not want not
they’re back!
This year our camellias are more beautiful and abundant than ever
and with them my camelliaddiction has returned, as you can see 🙂
Those of you who know of my camelliaddiction will understand my pleasure at the opening of the first camellia bud of 2017 resplendent in amongst the dense shrubbery, which will soon be sparkling with more glorious white blooms than ever this year. Stay tuned 🙂
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract 2
camelliaspectives
For this week’s Discover Challenge: Perspective Ben states “We each inhabit a specific vantage point from which we blog” and asks What’s yours? As those of you who follow my blog will know my vantage point is always both visual and written, so in response to Ben’s question I thought I would express my camelliaddiction once again today with pen, ink, watercolor and photography, with one final image that is clearly very much about perspective.
camellia studies 31.3.16
WPC: Half-Light 2 continued…
I thought I would add a follow up to yesterday’s post, inspired by The Lady of the Camellias for the photo challenge Half-Light, as these camellias are just too spectacular not to share.
“The theme of The Lady of the Camellias is a love story between Marguerite Gautier, a “demi-mondaine” (“courtisane” in the original French, i.e., a woman “kept” by various lovers, frequently more than one at a time) suffering from tuberculosis, and a young provincial bourgeois, Armand Duval. The narration of the love story is told by Duval himself to the (unnamed) narrator of the book. She is named as the Lady of the Camellias because she wears a white camellia when she is available to her lover(s) and a red one when her delicate condition precludes making love.” Wikepedia
Weekly Photo Challenge: Half-Light 2
My beautiful camellia bushes are flowering once again, which is why I couldn’t resist a second response to Krista’s challenge for this week’s photo challenge “to share a photo inspired by a poem, verse, song lyric or story.” This one is of course inspired by Alexander Dumas’s novel La Dame aux Camélias.
Looks like my camelliaddiction is back.
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