Composite plant
Corymb-like array
Inflorescence
Characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers, asteraceae, or compositae, is a large widespread family of flowering plants.
“The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” – Robert Leighton
Proud assertion
Beauty utility
Vision blossoms
Natural progressions often involve episodes of short duration.
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval
Feathery arms
Marked contrast
Glorious arborescence
During the early morning, a fine young cherry tree briefly blossoms in the back yard. Hope springs eternal.
“With this plant the whole world would seem rich though none other existed.” – John Muir
Tiered horizontal
Prolific white blooms
Deciduous shrub
A stunning ornamental display in spring, these white flowers will transform into small red fruits that bear viable seeds in fall.
“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mood trigger
Adding in realities
Luminescent remembrance
The aesthetic approach consists of framing moments and events into snippets of interesting organization that visually resonate. Certain subjects retain their appeal over an entire lifetime. Meaning is qualified as to its impact on experience.
“Taste is an acquired luxury.” – Neil Peart
Native plants
Maintain distinct
Stands in the wild
A wooded swamp, with sodden soil, harbors plants that are adapted to living with water level variation. An enjoyable quiet walk through such a nearby wetland helps to take the mind away from recent troubles.
“What’s the need of visiting far-off mountains and bogs, if a half-hour’s walk will carry me into such wildness and novelty.” – Henry David Thoreau
Sudden memories
Controlled environment
Existential manifesto
Certain natural processes remain potent aesthetic forces stretching over a long period of validity. Although the concept that knowledge develops through continuous research fuels the artist, some inherent spiritual essence underpins the quest as an essential core.
“I think that the best kind of change, is the change that comes from the inside and begins it’s way out until it emerges on the outside; a change that is born underneath then continues and spreads until it has reached the surface.” – C. JoyBell C.
Diminutive flowers
Petal-like bracts
Involucre surround
Nature is a continuious advancing manifestation of the external and objective in temporal terms of the perodic and subjective. Change is relentless and any complacent stability is an illusion.
“Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions.” – Keith Wynn
Deciduous bloom
Equally fragrant
Lilac bush
Over the course of decades, the naturalized Syringa vulgaris shrub may produce a small clonal thicket. The Latin term vulgaris indicates something common, frequent, and prevalent. In perception of the actual, sensations integrate a corresponding belief in associative qualities, belonging to external objects.
“The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.” – Margaret Millar
Eminently transfuse
Experience expression
External sympathy
Just about any flower is experienced as an objective target that seems to universally elicit feelings of elegance. Along with truth, justice, and goodness, beauty traditionally has been considered among the ultimate of ecumenical values.
“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are its only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them, does not define them; it feels and presents them.” – Benedetto Croce