Dad's Cardinal Flowers  

I have always loved wild flowers and enjoyed walking in the woods of my childhood home each spring to look for the treasured blossoms.  We had many different woodland flowers, and I was able to find many more throughout the Adirondacks as I grew up.  But with all my searching, there were a few flowers I hadn’t seen.  One of them was the cardinal flower.  Friends had told me where to look, but I never seemed to be at the right place and time to find them.  One August day, we were visiting my Mom and Dad when my father mentioned that he had found some flowers I really should see.  They were strikingly bright red, and I hoped they were the elusive cardinals. Dad took us to a wet area in the woods where the rich red flowers were thriving, cardinal flowers everywhere.  They were all I had imagined and were growing in our woods!  We went back a few times through the years but they never have been as plentiful as the first year, and the last time they had almost disappeared.  I have found cardinal flowers in other places but only a few at a time, and never as great as Dad’s.

Giclee edition of 500 signed and numbered reproductions

image size 8" x 10"