Click on the orchids for a larger view.
A neighbor of ours leaves Lanikai for the winter. In sort of a reverse snowbird fashion she migrates to the snow capped mountains. These orchids are a beautiful side effect of this yearly migration.
A few days before her flight, she delivered a zinc planter full of blooming orchid plants. We will care for them this winter. Since orchids are easy to grow in Hawaii, it might be possible for some to become jaded with so many beautiful orchids. I continue to be inspired.
Kathleen is reading Life Studies by Susan Veerland. It is a collection of stories about the impact of art on the life of ordinary people.
The Yellow Jacket, is about a Dutch painter working in Arles in 1888. A neighbor who has come to sit for a portrait wonders why would the artist have six paintings of sunflowers. The closed sunflowers remind Vincent van Gogh of small birds' nests back home and he wants to decorate his house. His friend was coming soon.
It is hard to say how many times the orchids will inspire. I expect to work on many more digital watercolors of our snowbird orchids.
