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Goodnight June…

Gallery July 1, 2020 XingfuMama 6 Comments

Common house finch with its red and rust colored markings.

Close-up of a honey bee on a lavender flower.

The Olympic Mountains just after sunset.

June was a month of flowers and raindrops with the occasional sun break thrown in. Nothing exciting but the ordinary is so lovely that one doesn’t really need extra-ordinary.

On to July…our pie apples are almost ripe.

For Zimmerbitch’s The Changing Seasons, June 2020.

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Pretty…for a noxious weed

June 26, 2020 XingfuMama 2 Comments

Close-up of Himalayan blackberry blossoms and forming berries. — Berries forming.

Cee’s Flower of the Day.

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June blooms

June 16, 2020 XingfuMama 18 Comments

The purple bloom with a yellow center of a potato plant.

A white morning glory blossom with a fw raindrops.

Passion flower with its dramatic purple, white and black markings and pop-out center.

A simple single Shasta daisy, with a few raindrops.

A red oriental poppy with a black fringe.

Morning sunlight lights an orange rose against a backdrop of green trees.

The Len’s Artist’s Challenge this week is also Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge One Single Flower.

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Raindrops on everything

May 31, 2020 XingfuMama 7 Comments

May has been a peculiar month. Warm and cold, sunny and rainy. The news of the day combined with the weather made me think about a poem I learned in my French class in high school:

Il pleure dans mon coeur,
Comme il pleut sur la ville…
Guillaume Apollinaire

Translated: it is crying in my heart like it is raining on the city. The weather was gloomy and wet, suiting the gloom in the news.

I took these photos yesterday. I’ve often thought that May and June are really seasons of their own, not really part of spring and summer. May is iris season and June is rose season. Summer in the Puget Sound region really doesn’t start until July. This little gallery shows what’s in bloom right now on the cusp of the change, with raindrops to represent the tears so many have had to shed this month.

My wish is that you and yours can stay safe and sane as the storms rage about us. May your season of the rose be blessed.

For Photos by Jez’s Water Water Everywhere, The Changing Seasons Challenge, and Cee’s Flower of the day…in this case many flowers, but then I’ve missed many days…and City Sonnet’s Goodbye, May.

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Pop-pies

May 19, 2020 XingfuMama 3 Comments

Just two days ago:

In May a couple of sunny days can make a big difference.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

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Pink dogwood

May 3, 2020 XingfuMama 6 Comments

A dog wood bud just starting to open. — The colors of the youngest buds are more saturated, almost like sunset colors.

In the next step the bracts open out. — Still vibrant at the edges, razzmatazz pink.

Fully opened out dogwood bracts flopping in the wind beside one just about to open. — Opened out the colors become a little more muted, but still lovely.

These flowers are mostly showy in mass, the individual bloom is not a show stopper, like the rose, but when the morning sun hits them the opening buds have a lovely delicacy, both in form and in color.

For Weekly Prompts weekend challenge: Razzmatazz and Cee’s Flower of the Day.