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Artistic interlude

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Beside her current series of  “Flowers & Animals” my wife is also making pressed-flower art. Amongst her paintings, I particularly likes the “Poetry” series (where she was illustrating some of my poems) and the “Geisha” series (she did a lot of those in the 90s). You’ll find here some examples of her work but I’ve put a few more on my Flickr site:

© Miyako Matsuda 1993-2017

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Images du mer-fleuri

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Pink columbine

(iPhone 6s, 2017-05-23 / Nikon D3300, 2017-05-24)

Garden update: five weeks later

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(iPhone 6s & Nikon D3300, 2017/05/20-22)

See also my flower album on Flickr

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Ottawa Tulip Festival

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Today we went to the Ottawa Tulip Festival (a.k.a. the Canadian Tulip Festival). It was a great trip and I enjoyed seeing all those various variety of tulips. It was the 65th edition of the festival and, this year with over a million tulips in bloom, it was particularly celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary. The even made a special tulip for that: the “Canada 150”. Unfortunately, it was a cloudy day and we even got a little drizzle of rain but not enough to keep us from enjoying the festival.

My only complains is that, as we went on the penultimate day of the festival, many of the tulips were rather past their prime. Like last year, we should try next time to go at the beginning of the festival. Another problem was that the signalisation identifying the tulips was rather imprecise and you sometimes had five different signs in a flower bed but nothing telling us which tulip was corresponding to which name! A picture on each sign would have been a welcomed addition. Checking the map of the site (above) and googling the name of the tulips was sometimes helpful in identifying the varieties I was not sure about.

Here is a small sample of the pictures I took, but you can find more on the photo album I made for the event on Flickr :

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Image du chat-medi

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A Cat and a snail with hydrangea
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Un chat et un escargot avec des hortensias
A Cat and a snail with hydrangea
© 2017 Miyako Matsuda

See more of my wife’s art in this Flickr album
Voir d’autres peintures par mon épouse sur cet album Flickr

Image du mer-fleuri

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Cat & butterfly with yellow violets
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Un chat et un papillon avec des violettes jaunes
Cat & butterfly with yellow violets
© 2017 Miyako Matsuda

See more of my wife’s art in this Flickr album
Voir d’autres peintures par mon épouse sur cet album Flickr

Image du chat-medi

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Cat in the countryside with a butterfly and clover
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Un chat à la campagne avec un papillon et du trèfle

© 2017 Miyako Matsuda

See more of my wife’s art in this Flickr album
Voir d’autres peintures par mon épouse sur cet album Flickr