The colours of Hydrangeas hold our attention as they have shades of colours of blue, violet, white and pink! It is a challenge to reproduce this in a painting. The nature's gift of colours and colourfulness are striking and refreshing !
It is when we have plants in the garden, we create colours to surround us.
The colourfulness creates an ornamental look. In fact, poets suggest that colours around us affect our mood. A poetry may spring within us to express the inner response and reflection of sights, scenes and colours, we see around us.
In the poem, I wandered Lonely as a cloud, by William Wordsworth, the last stanza is :
'For oft, when on my couch I lie,
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with daffodils'.
The colour and movement of flowers in the wind bring an experience that has a bearing on our inner ambience.
We can create an environment with plants inside our homes and out in the garden, which can bring an experience of solitude by watching the plants remain silently present wherever they are planted or placed. Experience of solitude brings solace to add to our inner well being.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
Lovely to learn a bit more about flowers around us.
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