"There's pansies, that's for thoughts", Ophelia, Hamlet (Act IV, Scene V)

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
Abram L. Urban

Week 28    July 21 - 27

I started  pansies from seed this year, which is always fun because the colors come as a surprise. The cool, wet spring delayed things and the plants are only now coming into full bloom. I've always considered pansies an old fashioned flower, something for storybook Grandmas: demure, sweet, pretty…. 

Upon investigation, I learned that pansies (from pensee, French for thought) are by long tradition a symbol of freethought.  The blossom is said to resemble a human face, nodding forward in contemplation.

This week’s painting has more and different connotations than I knew. This is a watercolor, 7.5” x 8”, titled Heart’s Ease (an old name for wild pansies). It is for sale for $100.00. Please contact mary@marygreggbyrne.com for purchase and further information.

Thoughtfully yours,

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