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Tulipa Gesneriana
The bulbs of tulips store food that allows plants to survive throughout the winter. This allows them to feed on them while it is dormant (the state of resting or inactivity).
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Welcherweiher
As you wander your corner of the world this weekend, be sure to take a moment to look up, listen for the wind, and meditate on those trees which you have known and loved. ......
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
"You have your brush,
you have your colors,
you paint paradise,
then in you go."
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Turban Tulip
The Tulip was originally a wild flower, growing in Central Asia. It was first cultivated by the Turks as early as 1000 AD, The flower was introduced in Western Europe and the Netherlands in the 17th century by Carolus Clusius, a famous biologist from Vienna. In the 1590s he became the director of the Hortus Botanicus, the oldest botanical garden of Europe, in Leiden. He was hired by the University of Leiden to research medicinal plants and, while doing so, he received some bulbs from his friend, Ogier de Busbecq, the Ambassador to Constantinople (presently Istanbul). He had seen the beautiful flower called the tulip, after the Turkish word for turban, growing in the palace gardens and sent a few to Clusius for his garden in Leiden. He planted them and this was the beginning of the amazing bulb fields we see today. ..
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Carnevale Venice
Masks in Venice once had enormous significance in social relations, to such an extent that in some cases they were made compulsory by law, and over the centuries masks makers had considerably refined their art.
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Nature Morte
Currently, I'm exploring different approaches to the still life as a subject. Objects which are food oriented and in their natural state form a recurring theme.I'm interested in the forms, colour and texture of the natural world - and how objects look when seen as a macro - articulating the landscape found within a still life - or as multiple images of the same thing.........
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Royal Red Delicious
GRAVENSTEIN is of German origin and came to America from England in the early 1800's. This variety, planted by virtually everyone a century and a half ago, is one of the best cooking apples ever grown, retaining its firmness when cooked and is an excellent out-of-hand "eater," as well. A handsome greenish yellow fruit with red stripes, Gravenstein belongs in every apple enthusiast's collection.
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For You My Dear
A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously
desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another
and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like
'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.
Eleanor Perenyi
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Flames
In the 20th century the trend toward abstraction coincided with advances in science, technology, and changes in urban life, eventually reflecting an interest in psychoanalytic theory. Later still, abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms, such as color, freed from objective context, and a reduction of form to basic geometric designs........
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Red Baron
Who would believe that two long lifetimes ago, almost anyone could find within a short distance from the home farm, as many as 200 varieties of apples? One could readily find apples that encompassed all the colors of the rainbow, including black, white and brown. And the flavors? There were apples that carried a definite aftertaste of pears, of strawberries, of bananas, of cloves, citrus or coconut!
There were apples that would keep without refrigeration for a year, apples so sweet that pies or applesauce made from them required no further sweetener, apples that snapped and crackled when you bit into them and tickled the taste buds with a glorious effervescent crunch as you chewed; apples that compare with nothing for which the modern, supermarket-jaded apple buyer has any frame of reference...
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Impressions
The rise of the impressionist movement can be seen in part as a reaction by artists to the newly established medium of photography. The taking of fixed or still images challenged painters by providing a new medium with which to capture reality. Initially photography's presence seemed to undermine the artist's depiction of nature and their ability to mirror reality. Both portrait and landscape paintings were deemed somewhat deficient and lacking in truth as photography "produced lifelike images much more efficiently and reliably"........
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Zantedeschia Elliottiana
The Calla lily - Travelling to Europe
It is not really clear when the calla lily showed up in Europe, but based on an illustration from the Royal Garden in Paris in 1664, it is safe to say that it was grown in Europe at that time. The calla lily became a very popular flower after that, showing up at funerals, weddings and practically any festivity in Europe. It was especially popular since it could be made to bloom all year around in the southern to centre parts of Europe...
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Flawill Oriel Windows
Flawill Switzerland
Old town ? charming, traffic-free old town for shopping and strolling; typical features are the burgher houses with colourfully painted oriel windows dating from the 16th to 18th century.....
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Agitation
Red runs through our bodies in raging rivers of blood. Red rushes to our cheeks when we feel the heat of our feelings. Red resonates with the root chakra and reminds us of our animal instincts. Indeed, red is the spark that kindles our most fervent flames of desire.........
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Sternenberg
The beautiful Alps
Mountains take my breath away. Its God's enormous gift to romance me.....
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Found Object
Inspired by the "found object" mentality, Pop art iconography of the early 1960s, and even more recently by New Realism, contemporary artists have enlarged the traditonally narrow definition of still life painting through the use of new media and new subject matter. They have extended the genre beyond the fruit-and-flower paintings of earlier times into environment and assemblages. ...
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Allium Cepa
Celebrating onions in Bern
Onions are one of the oldest vegetables known to humankind. Used in almost every culture and in every type of cooking, it often gets overlooked. But not in Bern. The Onion Market (Zibelem�rit) is Bern?s longest-standing tradition. Every fourth Monday of November thousands come to enjoy the onion festivities. ..
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The Lady of the Lillies
The Calla Lily became a recurring motif in works by important painters and photographers, particularly Georgia O'Keeffe, who depicted the flower so many times and in such provocative ways, that by the early 1930's she became known as "the lady of the lilies."
A recent exhibition at the Brooks Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940, featured more than 50 depictions of this elegant bloom by over 30 different artists, with eight pieces by O'Keeffe.......
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Jewel of the Summer
Callas have captivated the world for over a century. Artists and photographers couldn?t get enough of them. Georgia O?Keeffe did much to promote their popularity by depicting them in her paintings. She became known as ?The Lady of the Lily.?
Her crucial role is revealed in a groundbreaking book, ?Georgia O?Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940? by Barbara Buhler Lynes. She is curator of the Georgia O?Keeffe Museum. Published by Yale University Press, it also contains essays by Charles C. Eldredge and James Moore. This stunning book presents the engrossing story of O?Keeffe?s relationship to this plant. It includes photos of fifty-four works by various artists and photographers, including nine paintings by O?Keeffe.
Enjoy callas.....
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