After an amazing and wonderful weekend I am back in the workroom.

There was a commercial about an old lady who “put all her photos on the wall” and her friend says “it doesn’t work like that – none of this works like that.” And that was going through my head as I taped a bunch of photos on my sliding glass mirror closet doors in the work room. I could only fit ten columns of pictures but it should help me figure out some of the finer points. I have the picture of the shrine on top and then photos from the shrine below it so that lilies go across and roses go across – a pictorial graph if you will. I think being able to look at the pictures like this will help me make connections that I can’t make by just looking at the pictures one at a time. And I would like to add that the photos look much better on paper than on the computer.

In other news I got to meet another flower fanatic on Friday and we had a great conversation about the different types of flowers and the progression of designs through the ages. On Saturday I spent time with a large group of friends and just relaxed. Sunday I went shopping and got silk  – lots of different silks. I’m going to try a few more different types and I got a few more colors of the ones I like. I found it a bit odd though that the woman at the store didn’t know the difference between filament and spun silk – I now have to look up what I bought because I can’t determine just by looking at it on the spool.