What's Blooming? #13

Excellent photos Allison!

I was outside watering this morning (no rain for the last four days), and here's
a little critter that was out getting his (or her) morning drink of dew.

My DD, Anna, just loves this close-up of our 'Memorial Day' Rose. She says she wants to use it as the background on her work computer.

Can you tell I'm still practicing with my macro? LOL!
The light was just right this morning to show the true colors on the rose, and I just couldn't resist getting in real close.

Nice shot Candyce! Just his size of a dew drop huh?

It certainly seemed so. What a wonderful treat for me to capture the shot!

Well I tried my camera again since my traumatic night pictures incident.
Here is jack long after the pulpit is gone

Here is (finally) a bloom on my purple princess

Cardinal flower in my bog

Still have a lot of these

'Traumatic' Dave?! Hope you've recovered. Back on the horse! How tall is your waterfall?

This per sunflower is about 8 feet tall and just started to floop.

bonica roses keep going

Its about 2 feet (OK, maybe traumatic was a bit dramatic. But I'm a fanatic)

Started this guy from seed.

I'm using the Pixie method. It's brilliant

Emphatic?

Love lies bleeding

Couldn't get my liriope to show well. These are looking good in my garden.

My waterfall is aquatic

Love Lies Bleeding - aka Husband's Plant.

Love in the mist - aka wife's plant

'Love in the Mister'??

Nice shots, Candyce......it is not easy to capture those guys, and Anna's Memorial Day must be stunning....

Great shots from you also, Dave. I love your Jack shot and your waterfall and Cardinalis are soooooo pretty! I could hear the water falling as I looked at that shot.

Celeste and Victor......as usual your repartee brings a smile!

Here's a just-picked vase of glads, hydrangea, BE Susans, heliopsis and ferns......

Very pretty, Louise - the arrangement and the photo. Repartee - wow, sounds impressive.

Yes, Dave knows Jack shot.

Thanks, Victor.....here's one more little vase of red and white........one of my favorite color combinations ever since I read e e cummings poem about a red wheelbarrow near white chickens after a rain storm......or something like that.......it's the image that stuck with me!

i think i read that

nice shots candyce

dave your love lies bleeding looks to have taken on a life of it's own

pixie that wife's plant is beautiful!

DB the arrangements are great

Well, I just realized that I attributed that poem to the wrong poet. It wasn't by cummings; it was written by William Carlos Williams, and I just found it:

"so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens"

Now isn't that a nice image, even if I had the wrong writer??!

Allison - thanks!!

Oh good! Hate using all lower case. Guess I didn't read it after all. But it's nice.

Victor - it's still in all lower case.......but I agree with you.....it especially bugs me to write someone's name in lower case......guess it feels disrespectful to me for some reason..... probably could use a shrink on that one! LOL

I discussed this a number of months back - I cannot bring myself to use the text shortcuts, abbreviations and 'netiquette'. It's regular English for me.

.........and floppy not floopy?

I C where U R coming from, Victor. There's a whole genRation that won't know how to spell!

xx, C

'Floopy' is a special exception!

but we did discuss e. e. cummings some months ago. Not for the G-rated DG. He was being confused with Archie and Mehitibel. (sp?)

xx,, C

I think I coined the word floopy, I've misspelled floppy so many times, just because the p and the o are next to each other. Are you folks picin on mi?

No Pirl has the trademark on 'floopy'. And the patent on umbrella hats and miner lights too.

I think Pirl might have gotten floopy from me though. The umbrella hats, and miners lights are definitely hers. I won't fight her for floopy, however.

Yes, it might get sloopy.

so hang on!

Good one Al.

Fuuny!