Wall flowers on a shelf

The bottles, coffee, tea pots sit on the shelf without the backdrops, mangoes and other props.

For me it's an interesting view: we try to read this and place it in the context of what we know, what came before.

We are tempted to say: "Oh, this is what they really look like."

But is it?

Blue elegance meets the pedestrian

This still life intrigues me.  It is a combination of fine porcelain with some loosely hand-painted pots and bottles: elegant design versus pedestrian.  The antique blue coffee pot couldn't be any different from the modern coffee pot with the sloppy blue paint.

Yet the composition works.

Consider the lilies of the field......

In honour of the Higgs bosun non-discovery announcement today, I thought I'd mark the occasion by switching from roses to orange lilies with blue pottery.

Besides, I was getting a little, shall we say, over loaded, with roses.

Orange lilies grow wild in our county.  They are nick named "day lilies".   I'm not sure why.  They are ubiquitous.

When I was cutting these particular flowers from the side of the house, my neighbour happened by with her dog.  She is an avid gardener.

"The lilies are nice", she said, "but they don't last long....just a day."

"Maybe that's why they call them day lilies", I said.