This is from last year, but soon this year’s will be popping up soon.
For Becky of Winchester’s Square Up Challenge, and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Spring erupting
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Raindrops on everything
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.
Time marches on…
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.
Raindrops on a flag iris
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.
Pop-pies
Just two days ago:
In May a couple of sunny days can make a big difference.
Doesn’t it look cuddly?
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.
Which one?
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.
I spy with my little eye…
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.
For Sunshine’s Macro Monday and Cee’s FOTD…F can stand for Fern as well as flower.
To be continued…
A chance sunbeam
The center of my tree peony flower was his by a chance sunbeam that made its way through the thickening canopy of our Japanese maple tree.
For Brashley Photography’s Floral Friday and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Spring unfurling
Beauty in the commonplace, the sword fern is ubiquitous around here.
For Sunshine’s Macro Monday and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
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