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Dancing Dahlia
Dancing dahlia, twirling her skirts high, just like a flamenco dancer, actually is a native of Mexico, Columbia and Central America. She is is related to sunflowers, daisies, chrysanthemums, and zinnias. In 1963, the dahlia was declared to be the national flower of Mexico. Hybrids of at least 36 different species are often grown as garden flowers. Flowers have many variations in form. They can be as small as 2 inches in diameter and as large as a dinner plate, up to 12 inches in diameter. This tremendous variety in a single species comes from the fact that dahlias have eight sets of homologous chromosomes, unlike most plants that have 2 sets. And, along with that unique development, dahlias have many transposons, genetic bits that can move about on an allele, allowing even more diversity.
Dahlias are bushy, tuberous, herbaceous plants. They are perennial in their native habitats, which do not experience frost. The tuberous stems are quite leafy and can ra...

Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and purpose. My mother painted when i was young and encouraged drawing and painting and handcrafting in all forms and my father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result, i have been a lifelong student of both mediums. Formal training of my eye and technique has been with the wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson. i hope you will enjoy these images as much as i enjoyed their creation.