Day lilies are a common ornamental in Minnesota. They’re a hardy plant that can, left on their own, take over a yard or forgotten patch in an alley. They’re derisively called ditch lilies because they’re often found growing abundantly along country roads, having escaped gardens on abandoned farms.
Homage to Georgia O”Keefe
This is an homage to one of my favorite painters, Georgia O’Keefe. Her use of color and form to create visual metaphors is inspiring. She could be subtle or provocative, such as with her flowers portraying the organic female.
Thank you Georgia.
In Search of Beauty
One of my mantras is that beauty surrounds us. It is obvious and obscure.
One of the definitions of beauty in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is, a particularly graceful, ornamental, or excellent quality. Plato thought, in part, that if one aspect of a thing has beauty, then the whole thing has beauty. Some one once told me that one Native American definition of beauty was, life in balance. Needless to say, an action, instance, object, or thought can have balance, grace, and excellence and thus beauty.
My recent photographs of the people at a political rally, Minnesota’s Conscience in Signs and State House Rally , the architecture of a commuter bus station, Artistic Cross Pollination, and now these lilies are examples of the things that have an inherent beauty.
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