Preoccupied with Peonies

It’s peony season. I can’t get enough of these flowers… I have several vases of them on rotation on my kitchen table. I adore that they’re a flower with a whole story in their bloom, it’s a performance from beginning to end - starting as tight green balls and ending up as big floppy white flowers and then the grand finale when they suddenly launch all the petals off. Nature is amazing, what a show. I’m formulating some kind of timeline painting of these beauties, I need to immortalise them and capture all the joy that watching their slow show gives.