It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.
I really want to dive in the kelp forests of Monterey Bay in California. I hear it's like floating through a forest.
I have an aquarium full of fish and some Mexican walking fish.
I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing!
The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
