Several years ago, Gary and I went on a "Garden Walk". It's where you buy tickets to tour people's gardens in your neighborhood. They are usually awesome events, and sometimes they have a theme, like butterfly gardens, or gardens with ponds. Any way, this one time we went, I remember seeing this plant for the first time, and I was totally intrigued by it. It is a begonia that has a spiral center in the shape of a snail, hence the name, "escargot begonia". A year after the garden walk, I saw the plant for a second time at Cantigny Gardens, where I snapped many pictures of it. This was an attempt to draw in colored pencil for the first time in probably ten years or so. I am also trying to draw something other than portraits because, you know, people are beginning to talk.......they think I'm trying to draw everyone in the United States..........
