Roses

This is my quick 16x20 floral of roses that I completed before the pumpkin floral. Roses are not my favorite flowers to paint, but I attempted this anyway. I love the song by the same name by Andrew Ripp. I listen to it when I run, so one day I came home and painted this. I don’t paint to depict perfect images of real life things. I have explained that here before. Flowers have a very deep meaning to me as do blooms of any kind. I heard this quote today that brought me to tears.—”When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” I have learned this by growing my share of flowers. I bring almost all of the flowers from our yard in for the winter each year. This has taught me many things by doing so. For some reason in my life people around me have always thought I needed fixing. So much so that I too thought I needed fixing. I’m a life long learner. I’m always reading and learning from my experiences. Funny thing is I just now realized I don’t need fixing. I am exactly who I was created to be. It just took lots of uncovering to find that sweet little girl people thought needed fixing. I always have known how to bloom and the conditions I needed to be in to do so and thank goodness my petals are beginning to unfold.