Wednesday, June 11, 2008

CANNA LILIES AND JIMSON WEEDCanna lilies proliferate in San Diego, and the wild jimson weed can be found everywhere. I took the jimson weed trumpet flowers photos at the edge of Huntington Beach, and the canna lilies are in the Davids' backyard on Montclair Street in San Diego . Southern California's climate is just right. Sometimes the canna lily colors are so intense it's difficult to see these flowers clearly. I especially like Georgia O'Keefe's paintings and drawings of flowers because she usually isolates a part of the plant for a close look. She made several paintings of canna lilies and the white trumpet flowers of the jimson weed. I can't look at the beautiful, poisonous jimson weed flower without thinking of her.

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