June's Postcard of the Month - Phase II

I was somewhat tempted to just stop at Step 9, not add the poppies... I probably should have kept ONE that way! It had such an 'undersea' feel to it, instead of blue sky and verdant hills. It would have been an appropriate July or August card - the aquatic (pool, mostly, for me, but The Pots if at all possible) months.

Step 9

But that was not the intended result of my wheel and poppy musings!  So, on to the final steps: poppies:

Step 10

and falling petals (seven): 

Step 11

Each card's individual configuration of stems and poppies make this set of postcards the most individually unique of all the Postcard of the Month sets so far. 

There were some variables that I kept the same: seven stems; one each of a very tall and very short; five of the mediums.  Also:  same order of (seven different) poppies.  ( I did consider that maybe 6 of everything would have had more resonance, what with June being month 6.   But 7 just seems to provide a more graceful balance to my aesthetic.)  But, beyond these basic parameters, each card has a completely different poppy/stem dynamic.

So, here's a sampling of some of the individual cards:

And this one, whose stems interwove together so nicely:

 and which made me think of the Celtic Tree of Life tattoo design I'd just drawn out for nephew, Anthony:

Hmmmm....  A tattoo design based on a collage might be cool.  Translation from medium to medium would be strange. 

A less square version of one like this might work:

.....   So: I'm DONE.  Now I have to ponder July's PoM. 

I think I'll end this with some pix of my beautiful patch of Columbine, that I've been bringing along so devotedly:

It's actually a HUGE patch, and I was rewarded with some FABULOUS eating for my grooming efforts:

Oh yeah!  JUST what you think it is: A MOREL!!  Only one, but HUGE!!  And SOOOOOO yummy.

And I also harvested and sautéed (in ghee) a few of these Dryad's Saddle mushrooms:

Which do indeed smell a bit like watermelon rind!  I thought they tasted very 'meaty', reminded me of Portobellas a bit, in both flavor and consistency.  Mostly they were too big/tough for eating, but I'll look forward to more young ones.  I thought they were pretty scrumptious.

Fin