Flora in Winter

(This image was provided by the Worcester Art Museum's website.)

For the past two days the Worcester Art Museum has held it's tenth annual fundraising event called "Flora," mostly surrounding this bust of an ancient goddess of flowers. It is an event where professional and new-coming florists come and make floral decorations that will last for four days throughout the museum. The professional florists create flower arrangements that are spread all over the place with their cards. The newcomer florists are each given a piece of artwork their flower arrangement has to be based on. It is amazing what creative arrangements these people can make.

The museum has even had special night events that have lasted past 8:00 PM with food and drinks. There are still two days left of this event, so I urge people to come.

Most of the audience this appeals to are older women, but there have been many people of many ages who have also come to see the flower arrangements.

Even for someone like myself who prefers sci-fi and fantasy artwork, this does appeal to me. There are some flowers and plants that inspire some crazy fantasy creations. Think about it, artists who draw fantasy backgrounds or backgrounds from alternate worlds that have vivid, bright colors must be based a little on real life plants for inspiration. Believe me, there are all sorts of foreign plants that I have seen at this event. I never seen a real lotus plant until last year at Flora.