Evanescent flowers

Whilst working on paintings take time,  the flowers in our garden seem to whizz through flower to seed in our very changeable & unseasonably cool weather.  Still I would like to share a few beauties..
This 1st is a peony bloom from a few weeks ago - a plant my Mum subdivided from an old one at the house where I grew up,  north of London.  It then lived at Mum's next home nearby for some years.  Then it came here to such a different climate about 3 years ago.  It just survived 2 very hard winters, & after this last milder one has given us a first flower since its arrival,  which felt even more epic when Mum told me it was possibly planted by my great-grandmother !  Praise to the tenacity of this beautiful  plant which has felt able to flower again at last ...

The other is a poppy -  we have not had success with these either til this year - & I feel that this is the first year that we really have a proper garden,  & the Spirits of the place have settled after all the changes after we moved here. Thank you to all who have helped us reach this point,  both human friends & Spirit helpers...
I think this poppy's  shapes & colours are so fabulous at every stage of its growth  :-)

Water Worlds

I took this photo a few years ago ,  its of part of our pond.  I like the way it has become its own surreal world in the image.  I just found it again,  & it occurs to me that it follows on well from my previous post.  How many layers are there here ???  How many worlds ???  
It makes me think of the layers of the 3 worlds shamans have walked in for longer than  we know...
Its good to let our awareness keep expanding...