Both these pictures below are of flowers from my garden. 
The rose was picked a few weeks ago and I have been having a go at drying them myself, which is a first for me !

These beautiful delphiniums are growing in my garden and I just have to stop and admire them.

So tonight I got a couple of new Kim Klassen presets & a texture to play around with. 

Picture 1 = original

Picture 2 = Olden Days preset (strips most of colour out)
                    Texture Waterfront1 Hard light 18% & again soft light 13%
                     Font Dear Sarah

Picture3 =  Melancholy preset (earthy and split tone = purple hue to shadows, so reduced saturation)
                    Texture Waterfront 1 soft light 29%
                     Font Dear Sarah

I'm currently drawn to the warmth of the middle one........but that could all change tomorrow...

The homework was to think about props, backdrops, textures etc for still life photos. So far, I have raided my table cloths, runners, napkins etc, managed to buy the glass bottle in the picture below from TK Max and have a light weight fold away table on order from Amazon. #props

The bees have been busy in the garden today, which is great to see...