During the winter, each week I must decide what bouquet of flowers to buy from the grocery store.  In the summer, I fill vase after vase with flowers and herbs cut from my garden, but in the winter the bouquets from the grocery store give the house a little bit of color and light.  It’s always a trade-off with these bouquets.  The less expensive mums last the longest, but they lack that sheer soft beauty of roses.  Roses, on the other hand, seem to start wilting even on the drive home.  When I brought these pink roses home, I knew if I wanted them fresh, I’d better snap some photos right away.

While I love looking at all the still life photos, with all the bits of this and that, when it comes to my own, I am so simple.  It’s not that I don’t have lots of pretty little things to include, you can either say that I’m lazy or that I prefer a minimalist look.  It’s probably a bit of both, though I think lazy edges to the win by a nose.  So for this shot, my roses in my mother-in-law’s antique pitcher on some beadboard that we rescued from the porch ceiling of an old house they were tearing down.  I processed it using Kim’s Breeze preset and applied her Sybil texture at soft light.

I am entering this photo in Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday.