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As soon as I hit my boyfriend’s garden in northern California i go crazy photographing the dahlias.<\/p>\n

I used to photograph food….did that when I got my first little camera at age 12. Everyone laughed at me…DUH ! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0that was a few decades ago and now \u00a0you can’t get served anywhere until everyone has photographed their plate , tweeted, posted it on FB and on and on : so annoying\u00a0 and terribly boring……. ( don’t get me started on the subject of foodies… )<\/p>\n

So i photograph flowers instead.<\/p>\n

In this post I will photograph my flowers as they bloom this summer ….just for the simple pleasure of it.<\/p>\n

I just cannot stop…….every morning at 7 am I rush to my pots to see which flower burst open….then at the end of their bloom I cut them to make place for more.<\/p>\n

I think that having great vases is just as important as beautiful blooms so usually go to the Oakland \u00a0flea market to look for cheap and soulful ceramic vases . \u00a0California has a tradition for beautiful craftsmanship when it comes to pottery…from the turn of the century onwards , and the tradition never dies . I have now quite a big assortment , from \u00a030’s Bauer<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>to the modern \u00a0sensual ones from Judy Jackson Stoneware<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0, and I am still looking.<\/p>\n

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As soon as I hit my boyfriend’s garden in northern California i go crazy photographing the dahlias. I used to photograph food….did that when I got my first little camera at age 12. Everyone laughed at me…DUH ! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0that was a few decades ago and now \u00a0you can’t get served anywhere until everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,4,43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-inspiration","category-things-that-work-for-me","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screen-Shot-2013-07-08-at-7.27.49-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BVEi-3Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}