Friday, April 07, 2006

A bunch of grapes


muscari
Originally uploaded by wherethewolvesare.
The muscari or grape hyacinths are out. They love it in our garden, they grow everywhere. They even grow through cracks in the drive. A definite case of thriving on neglect.

2 comments:

Gretel said...

Lovely painting...and they smell gorgeous too (the real ones, that is!)

Cynthia Padilla said...

Your muscari sketch is accurate and charming Ken! Huge drifts of them are emerging now in my Dallas, Texas garden.
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