Violets

Today I was fooling around, learning, and practising the use of the "macro" feature on our camera....ie. trying to get a nice picture of a small object, up close. This was the best of about 40 shots...some inside with a flash, some outside in natural light. This natural light shot was, I thought, the best. These African Violets were used as table centre pieces at Karen's wedding last July. After 'dying off' last summer, Tricia kept a few and tenderly nursed them through the winter. Two of them have reflowered this spring....we'll have to see if she can get them to continue flowering....they say you have to have a special touch with African Violets and of course always talk kindly to them. My mother had the 'touch' and often had multiple flowering Violets around her house. Of course she had an advantage...her name was "Violet".