Today I came from the San Diego Museum of Art where I had taken pictures of flowers painted

by Flemish and Dutch painters... then I went outside the museum with Margaret and on the way

to the car I saw and photographed flowers that could easily have been displayed in the museum.  

The Dutch and Flemish masters were painting three and four hundred years ago.  The fresh Day Lily 

and the paintings from long ago were of a present time which reminded me that the magic of art is

always exactly that.  Nothing grows older in paintings.  The flowers are forever fresh.