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Don’t judge a cactus by its prickles
Cactus flowers always seem impossible to me: the low-key green, stubby, prickly stems don’t seem to go with the ethereal and delicate and brilliant exotic flowers.
This lovely was blooming when I went for a walk this morning.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day and Brashley Photography’s Floral Friday #10.
Rosemary
Still at it
This set of amaryllises started blooming in early December. They are still blooming happily.
Still not sure what it is
In early January I published a post about a flower bud. I wasn’t sure what it was. I still don’t know, but when I walked the dogs this afternoon it was blooming. It smells lovely.
Pick your holiday cactus
I looked into it a bit last year and learned that my zygocactus, also known as schlumbergera, is a Thanksgiving or crab sort, not a Christmas cactus (hence it is about done blooming). Mine also tends to flower in spring, often around Easter, and sometimes again in summer. I guess it likes the bay window.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day and Macro Monday (officially on hiatus for the holidays).
There’s one in every crowd
My first amaryllis bloom opened this morning. A welcome cheerful note on this gray day.
I got a group of three amaryllis for holiday cheer. Of course one of them has to be an over-achieving show-off… But in an amaryllis it’s cheerful and charming!
For Sunshine’s Macro Monday (I was sick on Monday) and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Teeny-tiny purple flowers
Verbena, maybe? These were in the desert beside a gas station in Arizona last spring. Between the wind and the puppy pulling on the leash it’s amazing that the photos are clear…and that I didn’t take a tumble.
Arty-choke
Last Saturday we went to an art show featuring some watercolor painting by my husband’s very talented uncle. Beside the library where the show was held there was a pea patch garden. I love pea patches.
Even though it was a rather grey, drippy day I wandered about a bit. This patch of artichokes, past the harvest stage, caught my eye. From different angles the flowers* brought to mind roses and waterlilies.
These were processed using various effects in Topaz Studio 2.
*The artichoke we eat is the bud of a large, thistle-like flower. This post shows the artichoke flower we found when we came home from a vacation last year.
