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Admiring my oak leaf hydrangea flower
Oak leaf hydrangea is a deciduous shrub that can grow to be as tall as a small tree, has gloriously multicolored leaves, and strong cone-shaped panicled of white flowers that dry on the bush and winter in their warm-colored glory among cinnamon-colored bare branches. Recently, I saw that a squirrel tried to bite one flower off. Now - to be fair - I did not see it do the deed - but it was doing something in the corner where the shrub grows, and later I saw that the only thing that was still attaching panicle to the branch is a thin stripe of bark - so I cut it and now am enjoying it as an object to sketch. I decided not to press charges against the squirrel because I am actually happy to have this object to draw :)
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Love these--you've inspired me to do a similar grouping. I've always painted lots of hydrangeas--their blooms are so delightful and you can't mess them up--just add more petals. But I have Lenten roses which have just popped out after the snow. I have to do something with them --and I am doing a sketch series of a hyacinth bulb which grows a bit each day--it opened last night so I just did a quick sketch with color in my sketch book, Flowers give us so many options.
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