Kat Sloma host a wonderful practice each month called Photo Heart Connection.
Deepen the connection between your photos and your heart and soul by participating in this monthly review of your images, to find the one that best connects to your heart.
This is mine for July 2013
I bought the most beautiful bouquet of Gerberas from the supermarket. They screamed summer and I wanted some red and yellow colour for the Summer of Colour project I was doing.
They lasted almost a week on their tall and slender stems.
I photographed them daily then they began to bend on withered stems, as they do.
I cut them shorter and brought them to the windowsill in a smaller vase and as the days went by one by one they bent their beautiful heads. But the colours were still so vibrant. I couldn’t let them go.
I got my lovely dark blue glass dish out. I really don’t have room for it in this house but I put it on the kitchen table, filled it with water, cut the stems down to about an inch and floated the Gerbera heads on the water and there they stayed for almost another week.
We worked around the huge bowl on the table because they were so beautiful.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~Thornton Wilder
What a wonderful idea! I bought some as well and they are just about to go. I think I will do the same thing. I have the perfect green bowl for them. Thank you so much for sharing!
They are such beautiful flowers . . . I love that you kept them going for so long and got so much pleasure from them.
ingenious way to keep the lovely blooms after the stems bend, as they always do
Oh, what a wonderful story of allowing beauty in your life, no matter the cost! The joy the colors of these flowers brought you comes through in your photograph and your words. Thank you for sharing this Photo-Heart Connection!
What a great idea, Miriam, and they are so very beautiful in that bowl!
What vibrant colors! I love floating flowers in a dish.
What a lovely idea, great photos.
Gerberas are one of my favorite flowers — such perfect petals and color options. 🙂
You’ve found a way to make summer last! I love how you “interacted” with the flowers daily–and photographed them. Kudos to you for finding a simple joy of summer! — Michele at Sweet Leaf, visiting from PHC
Beautiful photo-heart connection… lovely idea
I can see what this photo captured your heart! The colors pop and what a wonderful way to announce summer! I’m also envious that you kept gerberas looking great for over a week!
beautiful colors, great framing, amazing processing….. love the texture of the cloth under the dish.
What a great idea! I love the contrast between that gorgeous cobalt blue bowl and the hot vibrant colors of the flowers. I can feel your joy in them through this image.
Lovely photo and an even better lesson behind it – we should all feel free to make room in our lives for beauty and what makes us happy!
Rinda
I love that beautiful bowl full of colorful flowers, Miriam! What a great idea to save the flower tops and float them. I will definitely be borrowing that idea! I may also borrow that lovely quote at the end of your post!
Ah, the colours of summer! So beautiful. And so nice to savour them while they last. I love the flowers in the blue bowl -gorgeous!
You gave them every chance to shine and bring pleasure to the eye, right to the end of their lives :).