Tag Archives: spring

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.

Flowers

Time marches on…

May 27, 2020 XingfuMama 7 Comments

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.

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

Raindrops on a flag iris

May 26, 2020 XingfuMama 8 Comments

It is fun the way the drops magnify the details in the petals.

These are supposed to be our last raindrops for a while…it has turned bright and sunny and is supposed to stay that way for a bit.

For Sunshine’s Macro Monday and Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Flowers

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.

Snapshots from a Happy Life

Doesn’t it look cuddly?

May 18, 2020 XingfuMama 2 Comments

The unfurling fronds of the bracken fern have a soft fuzzy covering. — Bracken fern fronds just about to unfurl.

Still on my fern kick, this time it is the lowly bracken fern. I’ve always thought that the name was rather ugly for such an elegant, if common, plant.

For Sunshine’s Macro Monday and Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Flowers

Which one?

May 16, 2020 XingfuMama 9 Comments

I read the blogs I follow on WordPress in the morning. Today the Ragtag Daily Prompt was “Rosy Hues”. So while I walked the dogs, I couldn’t help but notice all of the different hues of the roses that are starting to bloom.

Also for Cee’s FLower of the Day.

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I spy with my little eye…

May 11, 2020 XingfuMama 2 Comments

A teeny-tiny, baby frond.

I’ve had a fern obsession this past week. My maidenhair fern is getting new fronds, and it is fascinating to watch them emerge and unfurl. For perspective: the pine cone in the photo below, beside the baby, is about 3 inches long.