“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.”
Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939, in “About Myself” in a catalog for a New York Exhibition
“They will be surprised into taking time to look at it.”
We love our charismatic megafauna (I sure do)
AND
Little things are worth taking the time to notice.
A few flowers (some with pollinators) at close range —
A few nearby insects —
Surprise, not a flower but a tiny starfish! It can grow as large as 5 cm (about the size of my finger tip).
“To see takes time”
Future post: surprise spiders, feat. family Thomisidae!
Beautiful! I’ll be skipping the post on spiders, I think. Spiders are never a nice surprise for me!
Understood. Crab spiders and orb weavers, who often surprise me, are quite beautiful and gentle.