"spring is like a perhaps hand"

(11x15 bristol board)

(5x7 each)

(5x7 each)

The magnolia in my sideyard is blooming. It's such a pretty tree, so Eastern-looking.
But the flowers don't last for long, and every year I work on the magnolias till they're done.
These are the first. I tend to overpaint white flowers--these are a milky pink to yellow-white inside; plumy-pink on the outside; the goal is to do so less and less as I repaint the subject.

Spring is like a perhaps hand
by E. E. Cummings
III Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. (from the website Poets.Org)