inspiration by the roadside

i havn't blogged for a while. in fact i have fallen behind in a couple of projects too. I am hoping to get to the project exercises over the weekend & then find the time before we go away next week to catch up on some blog posts about them. i have a pretty exciting little weekend planned. i'll share more about that with you in another blog post. i worked on the above image this week. on my way home from training on monday i stopped by the roadside not far from my neighbourhood & took few photos. there have been lots of purple wildflowers (or weeds) around lately & i was collecting a few shots for my february monthly mosaic. for some reason i am really drawn to the flowers (often weeds) by the side of the road whenever i drive anywhere. i am noticing how many colours & varieties there are that change as the year passes. there have been some large white bell looking flowers around lately as well (i think they are a type of lily) but i havn't got to capturing those yet. hopefully soon. i will find the name of all these flowers at some point but its pretty late right now so i'll leave it until later. anyhow on my little photoshoot I found these beautiful red flowers, i hadn't seen these before & thought they were very interesting & unique. i hope you like them, they inspired me to think a little bit about how they can be related to life...

what's inspiring you at the moment?? please share 

I'm participating in 52 weeks of 'art filled' inspiration through the 'beyond layers' course

the above image was edited with radlab & kim klassens 'lookup' & 'softly' textures. 

below is my original image