I was finishing up work on my daily flower photos when Maria came in from her walk in the woods and came into my study with some new wildflower photos that took my breath away. I stopped working on my art flowers and took her new wildflowers with a gorgeous Columbine wildflower and worked over and over with my two macro lenses to capture their beauty.

These are among the most beautiful photos I’ve taken of flowers in my memory; I am happy to share them with you and ever grateful to the wonderful Maria, a lover and giver of beauty, love, and joy. These are for you, babe. You are the best, and I  will love you until my last breath and maybe even beyond.

The more I worked on these photos, the more they took my breath away.

The Columbine added a powerful and dramatic beauty to the photos.

I had to toss in these erupting pansies; they were next to me and blossoming under my nose.

I wanted to start and end with the Columbine, just too beautiful to stop.