yup- I have a passionflower in a HUGE pot that vines up against one of the master bedroom windows- full sun, likes moist soil but not wet feet. I water *around* the root ball every other day- it is never dry soil, but by noon every day it looks like it is wilted just shy of death. The pot is too heavy for me to move, and putting it on our little creeper thingie to move it won't work because it's all gravel (save me from gravel- "Hey Kiddies! Why not go out and play in Grandma's gravel?!") and so there it sits, healthy and happy in the morning shade, wilted and desperate in the afternoon sun.This is so beautiful! The composition works so well with the tulips and leaves spilling out of the pitcher. It's hot and dry where I am too and everything outside in pots is cooking regardless of how often I water them. Now I know that when a label on a plant says "full sun" it means full sun in a normal climate where it rains occasionally and is not an oven 24/7.
So I was just out watering our little bit of grass- it gets crisp in spots if it doesn't get watered every day and sometimes twice, and as I was finishing up, I felt drops, and more drops and more and it RAINED--A lovely work! The flowing lines of the leaves are soothing; your tulips are terrific! Everything is flowing in this one. Nice way to wait on the rain (hope it comes soon without taking out any roads!).
I feel you here! I lived in Georgia for a couple of decades, and am very familiar with that watching/waiting for rain - ANY rain!! Walking across a crunchy yard, dragging the hose or carrying a watering can to keep some wilting tomato plants going.So I was just out watering our little bit of grass- it gets crisp in spots if it doesn't get watered every day and sometimes twice, and as I was finishing up, I felt drops, and more drops and more and it RAINED--
--for about five minutes. Now it is kind of drizzling a bit, like the clouds are wringing out that last bit of moisture, and maybe, given I watered it twice today, and it rained like a really quick watering for three times, maybe I won't have to water tomorrow.
If something happens to DH, I'm going north a ways. I can do frozen tundra on my own more easily than hell on Earth, I think.Of course, come February up here in the frozen tundra, I'll think wistfully of my beautiful screened in porch, not the crunchy back yard.
Awesome! Well done.Did this in a couple three or four hours while waiting for rain- which STILL is not making a proper appearance. I tire of watering the outside plants every day- sometimes twice.
Thank you- I often bite off far more than I can possibly chew- such as when I, again, try a landscape. It never works. I've done precisely two I have not tossed out; one is a neon-bright fall tree in a plain-ish scene- it kinda works if you squint your eyes so it doesn't look so tortured; and the other is a close-up of some Colorado rocks and a bit of Douglas fir with a trickle of water coming down the rocks to flow off in a ditch-y spot. That one doesn't look so tiresomely worked because it really is a still life of just the one bit: Rocks shaded by a tree limb with a trickle of water. That's it.Wow! Gorgeous! You blow me away. You're hella-talented. So wonderful to have you here. This is just beautiful. Simply lovely.
Awesome again!Thank you- I often bite off far more than I can possibly chew- such as when I, again, try a landscape. It never works. I've done precisely two I have not tossed out; one is a neon-bright fall tree in a plain-ish scene- it kinda works if you squint your eyes so it doesn't look so tortured; and the other is a close-up of some Colorado rocks and a bit of Douglas fir with a trickle of water coming down the rocks to flow off in a ditch-y spot. That one doesn't look so tiresomely worked because it really is a still life of just the one bit: Rocks shaded by a tree limb with a trickle of water. That's it.
I cannot help but treat every tree or bush like a portrait, every cloud like what it is- how it appears. Unfortunately, that way of working is not conducive to the soft vagaries of good landscape work. Works on still life and portraiture (haven't tried animals yet) but doesn't work on landscapes.
So, fine, portraits and still lifes it is!
Lily Was Here:
Thanks- there's a whole series of that shoe and/or martini glass; with a fig leaf and apple, with tomatoes and chiles, with their own shadows and reflected light on a wooden floor- the two shapes work well together.Awesome again!