The sun came out this afternoon, but it will rain over the weekend, so I took some photos today and will sprinkle the others out over the weekend. I’m going to have a sweet summer.

I wrote yesterday that I was getting a lot of comparisons of my photos to Georgia Okeeffe’s flower interpretations.

No doubt, this was turning my head. First of all, thank you. It certainly is going to my head; I can’t deny it. My ego puffed up like the Goodyear Blimp when I saw these messages.

The idea that anyone would compare anything I created to this genius was humbling and impossible to me.

Julie Enrich did not take this as a humble declaration but as something else (Julie is not, I should say, a fan):

“If you don’t believe you’re Georgia O’Keeffe, why do you incessantly mention it? Are you familiar with the “humble brag” concept? It’s very unbecoming!” she huffed.

I wondered how one can incessantly unbecome something they say they are not, but then I remembered this is social media I am talking about, and nothing is more despised than sincerity.

“Julie,” I answered. “Duh – because it feels great, silly, I’d love to mention it every day and put it on the journal header…hmmm… I have heard of Humble Brag; I think I had it at the Savoy Hotel In London during tea.”

I’m considering putting Georgia O’Keeffe’s name up at the top of the Farm Journal daily if I can figure out how.

I honestly don’t compare my work to hers or anybody else’s, not inside. The artist I most admire is Edward Hopper; he has inspired me.

But I want to thank the very generous people who see her work in mine again. It’s a mind-blower. I’ll never run and hide from that. That would not rise to the level of humility; it’s just stupidity like eating Humble Brag in London. I suppose tooting my horn is an old habit. Since no one else ever tooted it, I filled the void.

Geranium, blowin’ in the wind.

Tomorrow, Maria and I will see Polite Society; it sounds like another fantastic film by conventional wisdom broker and director Nida Manzoor of England. Quarantino, watch out. If the critics are correct, which opens today, this movie is a game-changer, especially regarding women in films and how heroes can be portrayed.

It’s time for a brave change; this sounds like it, and I’m told it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen.

We saw the trailers and said wow, this is different; we have to go.

From the New York Times:

This exuberant genre mash-up borrows from everything — westerns, musicals, heist capers, horror, Jane Austen, and James Bond — to tell the story of two sisters. 

That was enough to get our attention.