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| Bird of Paradise Flower Illustration (You can download and share this, but please keep the attribution on the image. Many thanks!) |
Hello there, and I hope any holidays you've had/are still having have been exactly how you needed them to be.
Ours were not at all as we'd planned, as not long after I'd scheduled the previous post, we learnt that my father-in-law, Mike had died. He was a good soul, whose quiet, calm presence, dry sense of humour and endless patience will be much missed.
But...
But having said that, he was also, until his last years at least, a good and enthusiastic photographer and card designer himself. So Mike, with huge thanks to all your support of my artistic (and other!) efforts, and appreciation of the details that make a difference...this image is dedicated to you, with lots of love.
And yes, it's a bright image, because even though Mike himself was on the quieter side, he never missed a chance to appreciate (and often photograph) colour in nature. Some of my best memories of him involve going round various gardens, and us noticing, talking about and photographing plants, including the exotic ones at Kew Gardens.
This flower also feels like a symbol of hope for the future, which is what I'm sure he'd want us all to have.
Please bear with me over the next few weeks, as blog postings may have different timings and frequency until the end of January.
Please bear with me over the next few weeks, as blog postings may have different timings and frequency until the end of January.
And if you're new to the blog-welcome-and I promise that 99% of my posts are much more uplifting than this one.
On that note, let's all make it a Happy New Year, no matter what.
More soon.
