New England Dreaming, 35 days till Spring
Floating flowers-probably a hardy type, as this was taken in Massachusetts earlier in the year while wandering...Love how they pop up! Also fond of them because the flowers , although they last just a couple of days, keep coming🌼 Functional too-nice little hiding spot for fish & a rest stop for froggies🐸 Monet, as we know did over 200 water lily paintings in France. Monet, leader of French Impressionism lived a long life and is buried in Giverny, France. He obsessed over flowers-which makes me adore him😍-and had his own pond in France...he used silver, white, cobalt violet, emerald green, ultramarine, cadmium yellow, vermillion & lemon yellow to paint, & actually planted his own water lilies on his property. There was no love lost, though, in the early 1900's toward Monet's series of water lilies. Critics disliked his colors , choice of WATER LILIES. Say what?? Hey, what did they know??? Right?? Some of the 200 some water lily paintings were lost in a fir