Paintings gone pink

Life vacillates between painting flowers, arranging them, and raising  a few in my  garden- sometimes it feels like life is 100% plants, 100% of the time.  

I've tweaked these sepia paintings on bamboo into note cards for the day of Love into an extremely pinkish mode.

These are native orchids. I wanted to call attention to them as they usually get overshadowed by their hybridized cousins. I visit a greenhouse in Pacifica, CA to photograph and sketch them.The orchid family kind of gets under your skin. They are so damn exotic and erotic. It's interesting but not surprising then, that men seems as drawn to them as women.