28 Replies to “Hostess”

  2. Nice photo. Nice to see the environment with all the flowers, and not only the butterfly.

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  4. Lori Lipsky – Wisconsin, United States of America – Lori Lipsky is an American writer living in the Midwest with her husband and a tender-hearted blue heeler. Her first fiction book, Used Cookie Sheets: Very Short Stories, was published in 2021. Her second book, Turquoise Parade, is scheduled for release in February of 2022. In addition, she is a contributing author to the books Snapshots of Hope & Heart, and Wit, Whimsy & Wisdom. Her short fiction stories and poems have appeared in a variety of publications. Marriage, family relationships, and friendship are common themes explored in her work. She currently teaches piano students at Arboretum Music School in Waunakee, Wisconsin, and she holds a degree in music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    Lori Lipsky says:

    Words and photo pair beautifully. Loved this.

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  8. That’s a beautiful photo, I love the colours and amazing butterfly! I would love to wander among the flowers!

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  10. inkpaintwords – A feminist writer and artist with a penchant for all things French, living in Washington DC. My love of language led me, indirectly, to my pleasure in gardening, drawing and watercolor. It began with a book, a collection of New Yorker garden columns by Katherine White, wife of its founding editor E.B.White. Her enthusiastic appraisal of the literary merit of various garden catalogs led me to collect and keep her favorites as well as to hoard with them some more recently-emerged seed, bulb and seed catalogs. The beautiful catalogs inspired me to little by little turn our entire front lawn (our home had a wooded ravine close behind) into a garden. That grew into a lovely site with two simple arches, a gliding bench on a little sitting patio and modest slate paths winding through beds of shade lovers and whatever plants supposedly in need of full sun that I could manage to coax into colorful healthy bloom. A curiosity about color and color theory emerged as I became keenly interested in impressionist painters; that interest merged in some way with my urge to garden. I acquired more than one book about Monet’s garden and gardens of other impressionist painters, both French and American. One day I picked up a magazine for painters, and found inside an article about a painter I’d known. Among examples of her splendid watercolor paintings was her watercolor of her garden at that time. Suddenly I could think of nothing more exciting than painting my garden. I enrolled in her watercolor class in The Art League in Alexandria, VA. The influence that the collection of Katherine White’s columns about the literary merits of certain garden catalogs has had on my life has come full now. Ink, Paint & Words combines what has become an obsession with drawing and watercolor with my passion for language. Yes, I still garden. A table full of blooming potted plants sits on my apartment patio, backed by an ivy covered fence with park trees behind. My patio, and my larger environment of Washington DC, together provides wonderful vistas for drawing and painting. For a number of years annual trips to France gave me and my companions extravagantly colorful panoramas and charming tableaux for brush and pen. And yes, now I’ve painted in Monet’s gardens several times. But that, as they say, is another story.
    inkpaintwords says:

    Dear seedbud, most gracious of all are your photography and language!
    Amazing.

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  11. beebeesworld – I have a degree in public history research. I love writing, photography, cooking, teaching, nature studies. I'm a mom and grandmom, an "old hippie".
    beebeesworld says:

    nice catch

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  12. Creative Expressions – Alburqurque NM – I am an Extreme Expressionist. I am also Bi-polar, but who isn't. I have social groups that I excel in. I seek out balance and am mostly on a teeter-totter of emotions. It is my pleasure to share. I'm open about my inter-most feelings and that affords me a family and hardly no friends. Truth is my intensity repels most people. My desire to explore and understand lives experience is fascinating and spiritually rewarding. Socially we take on many roles. My husband is my best friend. My children are my regulators. And it is up to you and I to decide which form we will enjoy. As for me, I will try to respect your boundaries and question my intentions and motives.
    Creative Expressions says:

    I really am enjoying your blog. Beautifully shared. Thanks for stopping in .

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    1. Thank you so much for the nomination and the lovely description of my blog. But because I want to keep the streamlined look of Leafandtiwg I don’t do award posts.
      But I so appreciate the thought and link. Your blog is lovely.

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  14. thedogwalkinggardener – I love dogs and currently do not have any, so I am a dog-mommy when I can be. Gardening is my passion. I've always loved birds and I'm learning a bit at a time from all the Birders that I meet. Swan Lake is my second home! .
    Anne-Marie says:

    Beautiful!!!

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  17. Gretchen Del Rio – Crestline, California, USA – I first discovered the magic of water based colors when many years ago I began to paint with procion dyes on silk. I loved the unexpected quality of the process. It was so exciting to never be sure what the colors and water would combine to produce. It seemed as though the medium had its own passion. Painting with watercolors and paper is much the same. I love the color combinations and separations that occur spontaneously as the color floats on the water. You can never totally predict what effect will result. If you try to control the medium too much, your painting will be very tight losing its aliveness. The artist must be bold and decisive or the work will not be clear and fresh. It is really like a dance. It becomes a controlled folly in knowing when to let go and when to take charge of the direction that the painting is taking. The images that I paint reflect my emotions and are expression of my life experience. They are not extensively planned, but rather evolve as the painting progresses. I am always surprised by the end result since it comes into being because of what the medium and emotion has suggested. The paintings are from my heart and I always fall in love with the subject. I believe that we are all connected and, if an image touches you, it is because we all have the same heart even though our paths may be different. Most of all, painting what I paint makes me happy. The paintings are my own path unfolding. They are an opening door for me and contain my own passion for life.
    Gretchen Del Rio says:

    She is one with the flowers. So lovely. Makes me want to walk there…..but not crushing the flowers.

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  18. “Art is the proper task of life”…Nietzche
    Thank you for sharing what is becoming to your eye.
    On a practical note, may I ask what camera you use?
    Finally, thank you for visiting my blog…

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    1. Hi, thanks for stopping by and for the wonderful Nietzche quote. My camera is a cyber-shot DSC-WX10 which I like very much. I enjoyed your blog.

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  21. I have a deck of cards made up of butterfly photos, the nine of diamonds is a Chequered Skipper, looks like the reverse of your flutterby –
    I was lucky to see a humming bird in my yard the other day – no chance of my being able to photograph her though – not the right kind of camera and she’s just a tad too fast 🙂

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  22. simon7banks – Harwich, UK – I write poems and stories, often mystical or fantastical. I believe very strongly that poetry is an art of the spoken word, so the sound of the words is important: so please say my poems aloud, if only in your head. I live in the U.K., in Harwich, Essex, but have worked in Kenya and Finland, and travelled to many other places. This is my literary blog. I'm also a Liberal Democrat political activist, birder, long-distance trail walker, real ale drinker and Quaker.
    simon7banks says:

    A beautiful picture. The butterfly is some kind of Fritillary.

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  23. Kerri – I am a fabric-sewing enthusiast. All of my art is created in the medium I know best, beautiful, luscious, fabulous fabric. I have an intuitive understanding of the relationships between color, texture and design combined with my passion for detail and devotion to technical mastery makes fabric the natural medium for my artistic expressions My primary sources of inspiration for my sewing include historic costume, the interplay between fashion trends and classical forms, a penchant for quality and excellence and the beautiful colors I see in nature.
    Kerri says:

    Another great photo. We share an appreciation of nature’s bounty.
    Thank you for stopping by my blog and giving a thumbs up.

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