Dedicated to my Flickr friends Kat, who is recovering from cancer surgery and is in my thoughts all day long; and to Rakhi, for sparking my memory to this picture I had in my archives!

Yesterday I was visiting the Flickrstream of one of my friends, Rakhi Rawat and admired a lovely picture of a ravishing red Canna Lily she'd taken. She reminded me that I'd taken some pictures of a gorgeous Canna Lily at a garden shop some months back but I never did anything with them. I dug around in my archives and found them...and then I discovered why I didn't do anything with them. The background was just horrible. I guess somehow I knew that if enough time passed, I would meet Stephanie Calhoun and be inspired to learn how to work with textures well enough that I could use this picture after all! I am so happy that I can share this flower with all of you, it's almost unreal in its beauty!!

Thanks to the following for their wonderful textures which I used in the creation of this piece! (The link will take you to each of the textures I used) Brenda Starr, Photo Nate, Belle Vue, and Cornelia Kopp