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 Every morning, when I drive out of the garden around my home, I can see some light purple morning glories on the fences on the corner. Some of them are over the other trees, some of them among of the green. They seem comely and pretty in the golden morning sunshine. I told myself that I should paint them someday, but I had not really arranged a time to do this until this morning. My car was being servicesd at the Toyota dealer, so I would not drive past the morning glories for 3 days. I was a little bit worried that the delicate little flowers would fade before I was able to drive through again, so I got up at 7:15 AM and went to paint them.
 When I arrived, I found the flowers that I had seen many days earlier on the fence wall had faded and some new flowers were blooming on the top of the fence.
This was the first time I painted a morning glory from nature instead of painting it according from a picture or a book. I found in fact the morning glories? leaves and the bines are different from the pictures that I have painted following some books. They are made of 5 pieces of little leaves and on the two small ones there are another 2 pieces leaves. There are some very small new leaves on the end of the bines. Unlike my impressions, they are certainly with a winding way. Near the end of the bines, there are another two small leaves.
On the receptacles of the flowers, there are some beautiful lines; their colors are lighter than the flowers petals parts. The morning glories are made by 4 petal pieces. On every petal there is a wide line in the middle. Their colors are deep and light with a difference between the part in the pistils and the edge part.
Their pistils are a clean white...
The part between the petal and the scope has two leaves, one covering the other one.
 On the road to work, I rushed by a little round door in the garden. By the door, a young cleaner in a bright green work uniform stopped his work and let me through the door, skimmed the besom in his hand and some of yellow leaves in his ? I thought of the little morning glories on the fence wall on the corner, thow they bring people some beauty with their small and delicate flowers. They opened in the golden sunshine in the early morning and closed later in the day. They bring people a little bit delightful feelings with their small and short lives in the corner of the fence wall. Nobody pay attention to it; nobody one see it, but they are still opened there to bring people and the world a little beauty. Maybe just like the cleaner whom I met near the round door, (he is a "small potato",) but he was working in the early morning on his position to clean the road, to take away the yellow and bad leaves in the garden, to bring people a clean and pretty world? to decorate the world with their work silently, with their hard work in the early morning, too. Maybe they are also the small flowers of our city to turn their lives to dress up our city with beauty. Do you think so? 
Maybe as an artist, when we are finding the beauty in the world, we have to pay attention to the beauty around of us ?
--Shirley
Written on 23rd. Oct., 2003
Edited on 02nd. Dec., 2004
Edited on 30th.,April,2005
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