You know it's summer when these flowers bloom. They are Daylilies, or hemerocallis as the biological name would have it. Hemerocallis means "beautiful by day," since each flower only blooms for one day. Every so often I do some botanical art and this is one of my better pieces, though it is small. This is from actual specimens as the flowers grew directly in front of my old home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Brown ink and colored pencils on sketchbook page, 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", June 20, 1998.
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