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Flowers

Time marches on…

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Pale pink peony bud just beginning to open.
The pale pink peopny bud is still mostly furled, but a few more petals are opening out.
A pale pink peopny, covered with raindrops is almost open.
A pale pink peony flower in full bloom.

I walk the same route most mornings with the dogs. This lets me keep an eye on progress. This pale pink peony bush has been on my mind of late. today’s sunshine brought it out all the way.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day, and Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week: Opening, and the Lens Artists challenge: delicate colors.

Flowers

Pink dogwood

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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.

Picture Galleries, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Twelve months of 2017-May

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Ferries and flowers.
I almost don’t remember May, so much has happened since and it held no major milestones or stresses.

Osprey chased by gull.
Orange flower
Ferry and Olympic Mountains.
Columbine
Tree Peony
Clematis
Goose and goslings
Great Blue Heron

KSM-20170514-May-01We did have a very nice Mother’s Day celebration at the residence where grandma lived at the time. Looking back now that was a very good thing. It may wind up as a milestone.

 

2017 Favorites