Cosmos fields

Before we were married Phil and I drove up to St Lucia (in KZN) from Cape Town over the Easter Weekend in April of 1989. We drove through the Free State and it was one of those unforgettable experiences that will remain forever etched in my mind. All I could see was sandstone mountains, flaming poplars and fields and fields of pink, white and magenta cosmos stretching on forever.

I had to stop the car and pick armfuls of cosmos that I put into vases when I arrived in St Lucia. You couldn’t see the one cosmos from the other, the vase was just a mass of white, pink and magenta.

These two vases of cosmos are a tribute to my incredible Free State memory of fields and fields of cosmos growing wild. A lovely chaos, just a moment before winter arrives.