My wife loves gardening so I thought I’d sketch something she could directly relate to. These seed pods came from her iris bed. In the beginning, to me, they look a lot like little green pickles.
I saw them lying on the wicker foot stool as we went out the door and said to her, “Where’d ya get the little pickles?”
“Those aren’t pickles!” she said. “They’re seed pods from the iris.”
“I knew that. Just making sure you did…nyuk nyuk.” (My wife puts up with a lot.)
She picked up the semi-dry one and shook it. I could hear a few little seeds rattling inside. “This one is almost ready to break open.” she said.
I knew then I had the makings of a sketch.
“How long before I can break it open?” I asked.
“Another week why?”
“You’ll see.”
“You can’t eat them…you know that, right?”
To which I replied in a slow southern drawl, “You ah smaaah-ty aye-us leettle wuhmun ain’t cha?”
Anyway, this is the resulting sketch, which did receive the official “tee-hee” of approval upon presenting it to the Garden Queen. It’ll be interesting to see if she plants the seeds and they amount to anything. If they do, I’ll be sure to sketch the flowers.
If she doesn’t plant them though….well, I’ve got myself a snack.
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Excellent post, Don. Your wife’s garden is turning out to be quite an inspiration. You’d better hang on to her!
Yea! What a great post and a lovely gift to your wife! I love the “pod over time” theme!
Karen,
Lindsay,
“She’s a keeper”. That’s what her Dad tells her too.
It was a fun sketch. Once learns a lot about these cycles of change just by studying and drawing them.
Thanks for stopping by!
A very nice natural history subject, Don.
Those seeds will probably germinate pretty well - but it will be quite a few years before flowers appear.
If she doesn’t want the seeds I’d give em a whirl!
Karen
Hi Karen,
Thanks for stopping by! Good to hear from you. I think she’s going to try them (at least some of them) in the garden.
Now as for “giving them a whirl”, do you mean you’d like some of them to try or that I should snack on them??
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