After days of steady rain, the garden is singing with life—fresh greenery and fragrant blooms everywhere you look! I’m enjoying an incredible lineup: clematis, garden and creeping phlox, bellis, coreopsis, azalea, iris, foxglove, a rainbow of roses, Asiatic lilies, plantain lily, shasta daisies, daylilies, black-eyed Susans, hydrangeas, big blue, tickseed, gardenia, hosta, rhododendron, carnations, sage, catmint, lilacs, hydrangeas—and more surprises on the way.
It’s nature’s encore, and I’m here for every petal of it!
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Even though we’re well into fall the roses keep giving beautiful blooms in spite of losing most of their leaves. These yellow beauties cut from the garden for a minimalist bouquet hanging from a mirror
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I don’t know the name of this flower but I chose this bouquet above all the others because of this spiked beauty. Mama nature sure does replicate herself like only she can—this looks like the land version of the sea urchin, doesn’t it? So I’m naming her the urchin flower 😀
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… and there I was going about my grocery shopping business, when all along the fruits and veg aisle are poinsettias of all sizes. What’s a girl to do when Christmas is her favorite time of year to decorate?! Well she grabs a couple of these little beauties to start warming up to full-on Christmas decorating.
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It’s one of those days when my go-to restaurant saves the day—dinner is ready for pick up after a long tiring day at the office. They dress my bag with a flower every time, usually it’s a red rose or a sunflower. But this flower I don’t know.
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No! It’s not a painting or a photograph. It’s a recently discovered waterfall in Peru, called “Bride waterfall”. Mother Nature is at it again. She totally rocks!!!
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Flowers that mimic Duplicity in nature Created design
The Dancing 💃 GirlThe Moth OrchidThe Laughing Bumblebee OrchidThe Monkey 🙉 Face Orchid The Duck 🦆 OrchidThe Happy Alien 👽 Orchid TheHanging Lobster Claw FlowerThe Ballerina Orchid The Naked Man Orchid The Flame 🔥 Lily The Ice Cream 🍦 LilySwaddled Baby The Bat 🦇 FlowerDarth Vader FlowerSnap Dragon Seed Pod (I’d call it “TheSkull” 💀)The Angel Orchid The White Egret Orchid
God can’t be outdone At best human imitate Never duplicate
Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt and Ragtag Community for hosting RDP Sunday, the word is design.
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When I saw these beautiful wildflowers while walking through the park, I reflected on Jesus’ parallelism between God’s care for wild flowers and God’s care for us.
Why do you worry? Look at the wildflowers of the field and how they grow. They don’t work, they don’t make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. If God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, He will most certainly care for you. Don’t worry, have faith!
So we’re under a nor’easter with heavy snowfall. It’s cold but what a warmth in my heart this orchid is generating. She’s the first bloom of the season.
This golden ray of sunshiny beauty adorned my table at a restaurant recently. A beautiful part of the decor that enhanced the dining experience. Hope it brings some sunshine to your day today especially if you’re in colder climes.
She’s kaleidoscope Autumn beckons through the blinds: “Come see my beauty”
Behold: trees of shimmering yellow……vivacious red,…golden brown!Behold a standout beauty!Behold: leaves carpeting ride path …… and cushioning walk path, a lady in red goes by green bench. Behold, geese in river hemmed in by autumn-colored trees!
I hope you enjoyed thisvicarious journey 😊 Happy Sunday!
My favorite park—it has a river running through it, and bridges, and tons of trees and a walk/run path winding along the river.
Now that autumn is here it’s an array of colors. I spend many hours absorbing its beauty and being healed by its tranquility. Today the reflection from its river is captured for Sunday Photo Reflection.
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?
The joys of the season are all cleverly brought together in this beautiful decor design. No trick and nothing spooky here, just the beauty of nature exemplified.
I went apple picking for the first time! It rained but that didn’t stop me from climbing trees to fill my bag with the choicest of apples. Topped it off with freshly-made apple cider and delish apple donuts. Yummy 😋
There were pumpkins of all sizes and shapes, some painted with adoring smiley faces. There were gourds of all sizes and shapes, there was even a ‘flock’ of swan gourds.
Presenting MsFoxglove, fashionably adorned in a lavender-polka-dotted-glove-like ensemble taking the 1st place award for the “most delicate” in the garden.
If it creeps or crawls, you can be guaranteed there’ll be one reaction from me—a mad dash in the opposite direction!
I’m sitting on the porch and look up to see this grasshopper lazing on the rail.
But…
… I’m not having that feeling-to-run feeling. Umm — it seems being in the garden all summer and encountering creepy-crawlies has toughened me up a bit. Cool!
So, I’m staying still and I may as well take pix. Out comes my trusty iPhone—SNAP! SNAP!!
Not fleeing means I’m getting to see this insect “up close and personal” for the very first time. And what an intricately-designed beauty of nature this is, complete with a herringbone pattern on its hind legs connected by what look like screws.
Hope you’ll enjoy viewing this little gift from Mother Nature. HAPPY SUNDAY!!!!
Reflecting on how wonderful it was to have a garden (my first). Thank you garden, you blessed me immensely this spring to summer and heading into autumn you’re still giving vibrant offerings.
And also for Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt (though there is more than one flower today).
So this was from early in the season but I’m already nostalgic for spring/summer. Here’s to pretty pink Azalea—pretty by nature. I hope she brings some joy to your day.
Walking through a car park and this beauty stopped me in my track and out came my trusty iPhone to capture her elegance. Isn’t she lovely?!
I’m calling her the “coral flower” cause I don’t know her name. Do you!?Please help me name her.I hope this beauty brings a bit of joy to your day 🌺
Update: thanks to botanist extraordinaire, Eliza Waters, I now know the “coral flower” is really Cockscomb Celosia. It does resemble a cock’s comb, doesn’t it. It’s amazing how nature mimics itself.
Earlier this summer I was strolling through a meadow looking for place to picnic and thought this spot was perfectly dreamy. No sooner had I settled in before bees started arriving. We cohabitated safely—me reading and they doing what bees do when they find a good flower.
With my trusty iPhone, captured this bee doing aerial gymnastics. As for the flower, I don’t know it’s name so I’ll just call it “purple mop head” 😊 If you know it, please name it🙏🏽. Happy Sunday!
UPDATE: Thanks to Eliza I now know the “purple mop head” is the Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe).
They are an exquisite combination of class and elegance, adding beauty to any space.
It took me awhile to get the hang of keeping orchids alive and getting them to rebloom. Now that I have, I find so much joy in ‘raising’ my orchid babies.
I hope these bring a little joy to your day today.
I deadheaded yesterday and this beauty is the last of the reblooms. But, there are new buds so I’m super excited for the 4th set of reblooms this season!
Sharing to bring a little joy to your day today. Thanks to Cee for hosting the Flower of the Day prompt.
Strolling through a public garden on a promenade and came across this beautiful pink hibiscus — it’s deserving to be today’s Flower of the Day, hosted by Cee.
There she was—perched precariously, as squirrels often do. She was maneuvering her way across a black unevenly-spiked fence in a quaint little garden off the Brooklyn promenade.
She’s poised. Graceful in her moves. Tail elongated she floats about with seamless acrobatics atop this fence.
I stayed a non-threatening distance away to capture as much of the action without scaring her and forcing a retreat into the protective layers of the tree’s plush foliage. So, with my trusty iPhone I zoom in for a shot that will appear as though I’m in close proximity to this cute little creature of the wild.
She seemed content with me in her space and so I moved in, slow step by slow step. Camera still aimed directly at her. And that’s when she did it …
… she nestled herself between two spikes at the fence’s apex; wrapped her tail around the central/biggest spike while settling her hind legs on the narrow bar of the fence; she then raised up on her hind legs, lifted her front legs even higher and gently placed her paws inches off the rail. Once in position she stared directly into the lens with a confident and proud demeanor as if to say, “I’m all that and I’m ready for my shot”.
I was ready. Click. Got it!
Others walking by who saw this 10-seconds exhibition unfolding—which felt more like a full-length fashion shoot—joined in my exclamations of pure joy.
I have a feeling she’s done this before! Don’t you?!
This was such a splendiferous nature experience. It gave me a heart smile. Let’s be kinder to Mother Nature. She apportions her joys equally to all. Let’s appreciate her more, be gentle with her offerings for she totally rocks!!
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