I painted this from a photo reference I took myself, of some purple flowers growing in my backyard. I never did find out what kind of flowers they were, hence the simple title. This painting is currently in a private collection in Iowa.

When I lived in the Sherman Hill district of Des Moines, I liked the area so much that I decided I ought to paint some scenes from the neighborhood. This was the second one I completed, a painting of the sign in the front yard of a cafe I spent many hours in, drinking jasmine tea. As it happened, I moved away from that neighborhood (and from the Midwest entirely) after living there only a year, so this is one of only two paintings I completed from that area. This painting is currently in a private collection in Maryland.