This Leaves and Flower Brooch was strarted during a workshop I taught this early spring in the Boston Area at Bead Designer International. The picasso jasper is from Utah. The colors reminded me of the lanscape around my hotel and along the Minute Man Trail between Lexington and Concord on a cloudy day. The sky was grey, the trees still without leaf with some trunks with white bark and the evergreens dark silouettes. The snow had already melted and the ground was still covered with broken leaf in deep tan colors. Just like this piece...