One of the wonderful flowers that blooms every spring is Wisteria. Caught at just the perfect moment, it resembles a curtain of purple blossoms tumbling down from above. I photographed this bench surrounded by wisteria on a wonderful spring day. This was one of those scenes where I’d tried photographing it for years and until this time had never managed to catch it on just the right day.
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In the Victorian Language of Flowers, zinnias symbolized missing you, and statice symbolized I miss you. Inspired by that, I imagined a woman looking back over cards, photos, postcards, and her autograph book thinking of friends she hasn’t seen in a while. Perhaps she’ll decide to write one of them a letter after reliving some wonderful memories.
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I hope this blog post finds all of you and your friends and families doing well.
I’m here in Bethesda, practicing social distancing, dreaming of photographing flowers. But if things get as bad as they are likely too with COVID-19 virus, it’s going to be a while before any of us are back out visiting gardens and photographing flowers.
I’ve put together a new video – The Beauty of Spring – with some of photos of some of my favorite early blooming spring flowers – to remind all of us of the beauty in the world. My photos are accompanied by Spring from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Due to the COVID-19 virus, I have cancelled this year’s Gardens of Philadelphia workshop. Based on current news accounts, I doubt the gardens will reopen by early May. We are carefully monitoring the news from CDC, state and local health departments and will be making decisions about our Lightroom and Photoshop workshops in the coming weeks.
