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Red poinsettias - the bright cheery Christmas flower - interspersed with dots of lights, as though someone ran a strand of Christmas lights through the cheery floral display for a festive image to brighten the darkest days of the year. These bright red flowers with their rich green foliage and cluster of yellow in the center have come to symbolize Christmas here in the US.

Another good result of my ongoing experiment with text-to-image software creating digital artwork.

I often joke that I learned to draw and paint because it is easier and quicker for me than getting a good photograph. I do still make the attempt to use my camera more effectively from time to time, but I have more natural aptitude to using a pencil or paint. Often what few photographs I am satisfied with become reference for my artwork. I work with charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastels, watercolor, acrylic, and am learning oil painting. I tend towards more realistic, although I have dabbled in impressionism when the fancy strikes. I live at the dead end of a dirt road in rural Florida with my husband and a yardful of critters, while the local deer and wild turkeys eat my annual efforts at gardening.