Loving Lilies and Drawings and Sunflowers

Summer is coming to an end. I can not yet come to grips with this fact. This has been almost a non-summer. Good for air-conditioning bills. Not so good for the soul. Yes, there have been those  days of delicious warmth and calm air and blue skies. but not enough. visions of Light Box on kitchen table are already sneaking in to mind. Not  good. Not good.

So - Hoorah for a bit of Brightness in the patio flower garden this season. Yes, most has been usurped by milkweed, and, yes, we have seen a few Monarch butterflies, but now I look at out Fall masses of spent foilage, speckled with small yellow mums trying to raise the spirit. the coleus and geraniums are giving 'er the go, and the sedum are holding their own. I rushed through gardening this year. No, the hanging planters have yet to be planted. That sort of thing. And yet, because of the many big rains, much of thriving green instead of crunchy brown as is often usual this time of year.

To remember 2014 here are images from earlier in this Summer:

These are common varieties , their names I have forgotten. Nevertheless, their vitality and color brighten early summer mornings, and knowing their bulbs are undergrounds prepping for SPRING truly helps one get through these ever longer Winters. So, YAY, Lilies!! And Yay for peekings of daisies brave enough to live in this not-summer garden. Thanks, Daisies! Life Lesson: Sometimes we have to live in less than perfect conditions, but we might well at least attempt to blossom as best we can. Yes, tired cliche, but true, non-the-less.

As this is typed the sun has hit the high points of back lawn. A friend and I have morning plans to view a rare Drawings Exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts -  "Marks of Genius - 100 Extraordinary Drawings." Do you know how much I've wanted to see this show? Two weeks ago I had a Serious Nightmare that I'd missed it. THAT'S how much I WANT to see these drawings. I am not a painter. I am not a pastelist. I am a Drawer. I LERVE Drawings! And the drawers who draw them.

(Just back  from - yup- breakfast might burn but sun on sunflowers can't wait- trip up to glowing garden. Got some nice shots to keep us through the white and grey of Winter.)

This might not be the best prepared we have ever been for this weekend's Artstreet in Green Bay, but sometimes priority is to become refreshed and have soul  refilled so later work is possibly new and vital.
So am "ignoring" Priority One stuff at home to see Priority One PLUS stuff in the Big City.

Celebrating our first Ripe Tomato - harvested yesterday..  Life is O.K. Hope yours is, too.

Fare-thee-well,
Sue

"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft