Emma Cheves Wilkins , an artist from Georgia who lived from 1870-1956 is someone I have just discovered. You may read about her by clicking on her name. I loved this red and blue in the painting above which is entitled, "Red Shoes, Blue Vase, Glass and Carnations". I love it!
Remember that I told you that the Sunflower Festival was cancelled? Instead of planting sunflowers, they planted poppies and had an event for Mother's Day called "Mommies and Poppies". I visited there during the weekend (it is close to my Dad's house) and you know I had to take a few photos!
For Memorial Day, I liked that Daddy had these petunias on his porch. The purple photographs as blue, so they look red, white and blue!
For Memorial Day, my friend Mary invited me over for lunch. She had deep red roses on the table from her own flower garden and beautiful blue hydrangeas in a pot in her dining room. The red on the table and the blue beside her table was just perfect! Color is very important to me. Sometimes certain combinations of color come to me in patterns and I just go with it and appreciate the beauty. Hope you can follow my line of thinking! Have a colorful weekend everyone!
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| Red Poppy! |
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| Blue Hydrangea...this one is from last year! |
What a colorful way to celebrate this important holiday, Kay. Ms. wilkens work is indeed very beautiful with all the splashes of bright colors.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to go to an art museum in Augusta that has some of her paintings. Nothing like seeing art up close!
DeleteTake care, lovely to hear from you!
I love these decorating ideas. The designs are so vibrant and the view is so happy and cheerful.
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I really like the painting. I love that they tended to name them literally. The poppies look very pretty. I really must plant some in our garden.
ReplyDeleteYes, please plant some poppies! They really do POP into bloom, don't they? I love them.
DeleteSuch lovely flowers! Color lights up our lives. When things get too uniformly gray, i get sad.
ReplyDeleteI have a set of bowls that are pink, blue, aqua and gray. I have had them for years but the gray one looks brand new, I hardly use it! I really do have a thing for pretty colors. xx
DeleteBeautiful flowers! Your season is ahead of ours, but my first rose to bloom (Harrison's Yellow, the Yellow Rose of Texas) is blooming now...I do love all those flowers and wonder why it was necessary to chose between a poppy festival and a sunflower festival. They bloom at such different times, at least in Ohio they do....
ReplyDeleteAnd that picture! I do love it! Isn't it wonderful to discover a new artist.
I have only seen poppies in England! That is why I was so excited to see them blooming just down the road from my Dad's.
DeleteHappy you love the painting too! I am CRAZY about artists, a bit of a nutcase really, but don't tell anybody! :-)
Oh, I love color, too, I do!!!
ReplyDeleteMe too! We would have been good friends as children, happily coloring in our coloring books, am I right? ;-)
DeleteMommies and poppies! Cute!
ReplyDeleteRed and blue is such a happy combination.
I know, I wonder when they made the decision not to plant sunflowers if the family then decided to do something to honor Mother's Day and then someone thought of Mommies & Poppies! I thought it was cute too.
DeleteKay, Very pretty flowers. It was so sweet that you dad had flowers. I like the mommies and poppies fest. how cute. xoxo,Susie
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DeleteYou and I think just alike! Look at my last reply to Terry's comment above!
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OH- How gorgeous, Kay. I love that painting at the top, too. Very pretty- xo Diana
ReplyDeleteThanks, Diana! Glad you like the painting too! Take care. xx
DeleteWhat a beautiful painting, I love those shoes! :) And all the flowers make me smile because they promise spring and summer, so wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're having an amazing weekend!
Thanks! And I am so happy for you with your engagement. God bless you!
DeleteLovely colourful post. How I would have loved those shoes, if I had ever had the chance of them! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jenny!
DeleteThat painting makes me wish I could have met the artist, doesn't it you too? She must have been interesting, I just think so by looking at this painting!
Oooh, I love that red/blue color combo and red poppies are my favorite. I love the flowers on your dad's porch. Petunias are so cute!
ReplyDeleteAudrey, my colorful friend, I knew you would love this nature/art post!
DeleteLovely painting and I'd love those shoes! x
ReplyDeleteYes, those shoes! They just make me happy! xx
DeleteThe photos are beautiful and I too love color. I love to jam the front garden with all kinds of flowers and have real color explosion! Many of my flowering trees didn't do well with our harsh Winter. I'm going to have to replace some. My hydrangea took a bit of hit but seems to be trying really hard to come back. It sports blue and pink blooms. I call it my "bipolar" bush!
ReplyDeleteYour "bi-polar" bush! Ha! You are too funny, I think it sounds lovely!
DeleteHa, great concept with the Mommies and Poppies.Thanks for sharing the colorful photos Kay.
ReplyDeleteI kind of like the idea of a Mommies and Poppies Festival myself, maybe someone else could read this and get one started!
DeleteWhere can I get some shoes like that? They're beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYes, colour is very important. Love those poppies with the blue flowers mixed in, and your dad's patriotic petunias. :)
Another fan of the red shoes! :-)
DeleteOf course, you would love the colour too, you are a kindred spirit!
Super flowers and super pictures.
ReplyDeleteBy the way colour is spelt COLOUR!
HA! See the comment above! Sue is a true Anglophile and she spells it "colour", so I responded in kind.
DeleteLove the poppies. Had a display like that in my garden one year then tried for the next three summers to repeat it without success before realising the best year had been a really dry,sunny one. Great mix of colours.
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I don't know one thing about poppies except that I love them when I am in England. And now that they have begun to plant them here, maybe they will catch on.
DeleteSCROOGE Mc DUCK!!! Oh my God, I LOVE him!! Please tell me that you have seen Mickey's Christmas Carol!! That fake Scottish accent is one of my favorites, not forgetting Scotty from Star Trek, of course!
Wow! Wow! Wow! What a colourful post. I adore that painting...how wonderful it is! :)
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you love that painting too! It must made me so happy when I saw it, just after my red/blue fascination when I was at my friend's house. Color, I love IT!!
DeleteThe vivid color in that painting really appeals to me. And I'd love to have a pair of those red shoes! I'm going to look up the artist; she is new to me as well.
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DeleteSo happy that you love these colors too! And if you ever find an artist that you also like, please let me know. There can never be enough art for me!
I've always loved the striking colors of the poppies. These are such gorgeous photos. That painting really appeals to me too.
ReplyDeleteI wish we had hydrangeas here in Hawaii. I've seen gorgeous gardens full of them in Canada.