Inspired by Van Gogh - again

I have been toying with the idea of doing another piece inspired by Van Gogh.
As it is spring and the fruit trees have been in bloom, I thought I would try to use his Almond Blossom images.

Our trees are a very small almond tree  with white flowers, a nectarine tree with pink flowers and a very small tree with scrumptious flowers - it could also be a nectarine, I am not sure. But they are much more showy than the ordinary nectarine (which has delicious fruit - the possums love them!).

Van Gogh did the almond tree but I am not a fan of white, I really don't like using it much.
However, I have taken my time with thinking and now the trees have dropped their petals and even the little bits of stamens and such-like are falling off. The tree now has green leaves.

I will have to make up my mind soon and get started!

I have also been taking photos of the trees because of a theme that I am going to use for our tapestry group - Transformation (or is it Transition? Suppose I had better get that right!). My tenuous idea is to go from flowers to fruit. But I don't know if I will be able to do justice to the photos and I am not that keen on realistic imagery in my weaving - partly because I am never happy with my attempts at realism.

But those ideas have some time to be developed and I am taking pictures in the meantime.

Back to Van Gogh. I came across an image today of his twig of blossom in a glass, so I am feeling much freer to use part of one of my photos and not try to replicate his work too closely - not that I was feeling capable of that anyway but the tendency is to try to stick to the source.

So the plan, at the moment, is to just do a small part of a fruit tree, based on my photos, which haven't got good views of the trees. Hence the idea that it will be a study of a small part of a branch.

Now I just have to start!!