A Thousand Flowers

Some people get a sense of satisfaction from solving puzzles. If a puzzle takes too long, I'm perfectly fine with going straight to the internet to find the answer.

Last night, my sister started a puzzle-type video game. She spent an hour clicking around a small chamber, figuring out the rules. I would go bonkers with impatience.

I prefer constrained puzzles where you know the rules and use them creatively. Sudoku, zebra puzzles, syllogisms. Playing Mastermind is my hidden talent.

I view it as: when I look up the answer to unconstrained puzzles, I am simply learning the rules for next time.

On a tenuously related note, our painting today is a garden maze.

Designing and engineering the maze was a big highlight of the process. The painting process itself was quite repetitive. The tricky part was that I couldn't tell if it was good until every section was filled out. Thusly, I had to redo a couple sections repeatedly, though it was worth it in the end.

My mom suggested to add a Pac-Man chomping through the maze. Cute idea, but rejected!

Inspired by a rainbow flower wall that I found in New York City.

If anyone is confused, the grassy green path is the maze and the colorful flowers are hedges. The bottom strip is a watering pool.

Flower inspirations (left to right):
Cherry Blossom, Sweet Pea, Ranunculus, Gerbera Daisy, generic field flower, Pansy, Morning Glory