Mom and I tend to name our summers, for example, not last summer but the summer before we dubbed "summer of dahlias". There were dahlias at the state fair and we tried our hands at growing one of our own.
Of course, my brain has an odd sense of time and I constantly forget which summer earned which name. I'm pretty sure last summer ended up being summer of the fireflies though :-D
At right is a chalk pastel drawing that was inspired by the dahlias I saw at the fair that year.
Scanning it into the computer was tricky because the picture is double the size of my scanner so I had to take two scans and splice them together, also the peculiar way the chalk pastel reflects light that gives it such rich color causes the colors to come out blagh when scanned so I played around with the picture in a photo editor for a while to get it to look right on screen. I'm pleased with the final results.
Below I have photos I took of the dahlia mom and I grew.
I wonder what name this summer will earn?
Ooh I like this one.
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