The Wonderful Intensity of One Flower

I love color and composition in all its forms.  As an artist I have an eye that has been trained for years to stop and notice the intricacies of nature and life around me.  What a grey and dull life I would lead without my eyes to see the little things around me.  I was walking in the Dahlia Garden at the arboretum and thousands of gorgeous dahlia blooms surrounded me.  With camera in hand I was allowed to focus on this one bloom and notice the yellow and the contrasted small tips of luscious mauve that gave a firecracker appearance to this one flower.  I fell in love with color and texture through God's gift that day.

Dating is very much like going through this garden.  I have been taught through the negativity in the dating scene that life is not an assembly line of women and men to go through as if one has a pair of blinders on.  It turns out to be an excersize in learning about ones own fears and ones own degree of self -worth to to see that I am a part of the greater whole that is the universe.  I think of myself as much like this dahlia.  People may pass by- not noticing the grand intensity of the colors and the textures that each petal offers to us.  It is up to the artist in me not to emulate the general population of mankind - but to choose to stand apart within the universe and take notice of the small  things all around me.
I choose to live this way.