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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleLovely story, Susan! And, yes, they do live on 🙂 A beautiful reminder.
Thank you. I am missing the flower and haiku prompts.
Yes, they were wonderful, weren’t they? I love giving and receiving feedback on this site and have my fingers crossed that we might see some more flower and haiku prompts in the future. I really enjoy your stories connecting real history with the prompts 🙂
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you. Bring back shrinking violets, singing wrens, picket fence grandmas and apple blossom letters.
Susan and Sandra, you will be happy to hear that a new flower/haiku prompt is coming soon, right after our annual Halloween “Scary” contest. There will be many more next year as well! We all love the ZenGarden energy.
Yay!
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleBeautiful story. Flower paintings will live forever. Making flowers alive with the brush stroke is incredible.
Useful for the story prompt, so I was pleased when I saw he had painted some azaleas.
I’ve read so much about Monet and have studied his paintings for years, but I never “knew” him as an old man with failing eyesight. As I’ve said about your other stories, your unique point of view really brings these historic characters to life. I chuckled at the thought of all those Waterlily paintings – “hundreds of canvases cluttering up the place.” Cleaning up behind any of those artists must have been… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleWish I’d had the talent to paint waterlilies!
What a beautifully descriptive piece of writing. I feel like I could reach out and touch each delicate petal. Lovely.
I’m glad you could enter in to the Monet story. The prompt required a wren, dewdrop and red azaleas if I remember rightly. I was pleased to see he did paint some, but they were white, so the scene on the bridge had to encompass all of the above without seeming too far fetched. Fun to write.
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleI see you are in Robin Hood country, Carrie. I sometimes feel I am, having visited the Robin Hood tree on Hadrian’s wall last week, and I have ‘Robin of Pegswood’ down the road – look him up and you will see what I mean. I am sure Robin of Loxley never ventured up North though.
Hi Susan, your story brings me there in the garden and on Monsiuer Claude’s studio in a few steps, and makes me amazed of all the beautiful and lively paintings I saw in my imagination. I can imagine how beautiful it was and how lovely to smell the perfume of the flowers.