Monday, May 01, 2006

Glory of the Snow


chionodoxa
Originally uploaded by wherethewolvesare.
We never got much snow but they were glorious. I only sketched these last week but the flowers are all gone now. I can't understand how a flower that lasts such a short time in the temperate UK can last for any time at all in their native alpine conditions. It must be the need for speed (of reproduction) that most alpine flowers seem to have.

Ah well, short and sweet, leave 'em wanting more, and all that.

3 comments:

Linda said...

Great sketch of these little flowers! Wildflowers all seem to go through that "here today and gone tommorrow" thing, making it really hard to catch them at the exact right moment when they are good drawing subjects! Good job!
:-)

Karen Winters said...

This is a very pretty botanical!

vicki johnson said...

sorry i haven't commented for so long...but i've been loving the last few entries...this delicte one especially