Happy belated Birthday wishes to you!!!

a magnificent display Andrea

what a joy !! didn't know you had your birthday !! congratulations

Nice till life. Happy Birthday

Beautiful flowers, bet they smell delicious.

Beautiful flowers for the house and the scent of perfume all over great shot girl.

Wonderful freshness brought to your hallway.

Beautiful!

Happy Birthday my friend. Aloha

Very wonderful flowers :-)

Very beautiful flowers

Very Beautiful

Wonderful flowers! :)

Superb capture Andrea. God bless.

Pretty :D

Glorious. You must have the most aromatic home. I hope your birthday was a perfect day.

Bet it all smells divine; wonderful capture!

A pleasing medley of colors, lighting and textural effects greet the eye in this most lovely of indoor bouquets, A.

A lovely and colorful arrangement!

Nice flowers but I can't get excited about them as I've had my fill of them in the last fortnight.

Lovely! I should have flowers in the house too, once in a while but I never get any unless there are women coming over...more than two, LOL! Then I buy fresh fruit too.

back to do a few more, andrea, as one session is never enough. As you know, I love this series, and only part of it is for the actual beauty of the flowers themselves. I love it for the composition, the play, the juxtapositions you get, and the 'variations on a theme' created by the whole series. In classical music, the two most celebrated Themes and Variations are the Goldberg Variations by Bach, and the Diabelli Variations by Beethoven. You may know them, but I'm repeating for the sake of the comment...Both are based upon someone else's themes (meaning, the composers didn't compose the actual themes); and in both cases, the composers turned little repasts (ie, the themes) into monumental visions. But the amazing thing was, the individual variations were based on such simple material yet each variation was a storehouse; and, in the Beethoven, his variations seem positively trivial on the surface while he manages to scale the cosmos by the time the series is over. (And the complexity of the Bach is staggering.) But the key is everything they did to make each variation exciting. I love your flowers in the house because you not only find so many angles for each bouquets (I mean actual angles, physical angles), but so many types of light, and so many juxtapositions. We recognize the table by now, the mirror, the background, etc; but you never fail to give new patterns and new light in these pieces. You have some filters here, making the piece grainy and "antiqued" (that's at least how it looks to me); and you've intensified the light behind the flowers---in the mirror (or perhaps it was like that to begin with? but it looks like you've done something to bring it forward)---into some kind of revelation pouring through the lilies. And I don't mean "revelation" in a religious sense, just as a beautiful and illumined presence. It transforms the bouquet; and in Goldberg and Diabelli terms, it's one of the "themes" in this variation, one of the main focuses. And your lilies---the whitest flowers---are directly in front of that white light, which is a terrific choice. It's a scintillating take on this now well-visited theme; simple, quite luminous, and effulgent. I'll never get tired of this series---like your perfume studies, it just keeps giving and giving. Oh...and Bach's Goldberg is 30 variations, and Beethoven's Diabelli is 33. You're up to 43 (and still goin' strong!). I hope it continues!