Friday 6 January 2012

A dash of yellow


Let's brighten things up. Shake the possible January gloom away and think of flowers.
'Lady Slane liked them [his little offerings] best when they took the form of flowers... He would make daring and surprising combinations of colour and form, till the result was more like a still-life painting than like a bunch of living flowers, yet informed with a life that no paint could rival. Set upon their window-sill, luminous in the sun... he would produce a bunch as garish as a gipsy, all blue and purple and orange, but next week a bunch discreet as a pastel, all rose and grey with a dash of yellow..' Vita Sackville-West All Passion Spent

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4 comments:

  1. Love the pic, love the words. Missing the flowers in my garden. Is Spring so celebrated because it is so longed for in January and February?

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  2. Ooh flowers: image and quote have brightened my morning! May have to treat myself to some early daffodils today.

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  3. We've had lots of January 'gloom' here in Illinois this winter. I'm personally wishing for some snow, but a dash of yellow would be fine as well. Especially in a bunch of beautiful flowers.

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  4. Belinda - Hello. Thank you. I'm looking forward to reading alot more about the flowers in your garden.
    Tonia - good I'm pleased to have brightened your morning.
    Bellezza - I didn't used to be a big fan of yellow but slowly it's crept into being liked.

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Ooh how lovely more stripes on the page...
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