I took this image at around 8:00pm the other day ~ sun light streaming into my apartment. Oh, how I love these long summer days. And gardens full of bright blue hydrangea.More summer inspiration:
* Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly.
* Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Garden and Wood.
* The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight.
* Irving Penn's flowers.
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!
Blue Hydrangea by Rainer Maria Rilke, July1906, Paris
ReplyDeleteJust like the last green in a colour pot
So are these leaves, withered and wrecked
Behind the flower umbels, which reflect
A hue of blue only, more they do not.
Reflections are tear-stained, inaccurate,
As if they were about to cease,
And like old blue notepaper sheets
They wear some yellow, grey and violet,
Washed-out like on a children's apron,
Outworn and now no more in use:
We contemplate a small life's short duration.
But suddenly some new blue seemingly is seen
In just one umbel, and we muse
Over a moving blue delighting in the green.
xo KDM
K ~ thank you. xx
ReplyDeleteGrowing blue hydrangea at the cottage, just for you!
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