Today's ABC Wednesday letter is 'w'-- I captured these budding water lily pads last week at a small local lake. Though representational, my photo's colors reminded me of Claude Monet's water lilies series that he planted and painted at Giverney for over two decades.
I've included just four of this series showing how his eyesight and style changed from 1903-1926. 
1897-99Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna - Rome
1906 The Art Institute of Chicago
1916-19
Musée Marmottan-Monet - Paris
1920-26
Musée de l'Orangerie - Paris
FYI, white water lilies are the national flower of Bangladesh.
and he said:
It took me time to understand my waterlilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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