“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Since I am writing this from New Mexico, I should open today's blogging with Georgia O'Keeffe's "Red Canna." Sotheby's Auction House in New York sold "A Street" and "Calla Lillies on Red" for nearly $19.5 million combined on Wednesday.

In today's Brain Pickings blog Maria Popova explains that to Georgia,

Painting these close-ups was a way of learning to look, a way of removing the blinders with which we gallop through the world, slowing down, shedding our notions and concepts of things, and taking things in as they really are.

Read more here and see another painting by O'Keeffe.