First REAL signs of spring: Friday morning at work.
SNOWDROPS!
Granted, it was about 70 degrees. In February. IN NEW YORK!
~ photos by iPhone
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2017
Friday, December 2, 2016
Photo of the Day: Spot the Color
These daisies: "Never give up! Never surrender!" "We don't care if it's December. We are going to brighten up this flower bed, even if everything else has died!" "Oh hey! Did you notice over here in the corner?"
Me: "Yes, I did!"
Moral of the story: Spot the little things. And share them.
You: "THANK YOU!"
~photo by iPhone
Friday, June 5, 2015
Stop and smell the peonies
The peonies are finally in bloom again. Why is their season so fleeting?
Forget the roses. Stop and smell the peonies.
~photos by iTouch
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Magnolia Snowfall
I was heading up the stairs at the office, when this vision came into my view.
Colors!
No grey!
Not monochromatic!
I think ... can it be ... Spring?
Look at this lovely bed of pretty pretty petals!
Screw the allergies! I stuck my nose deep into these and inhaled, deeply.*
I wish this was smell-o-vision!
I can't even describe it.
Nostalgia for North Carolina is one of those feelings that is triggered by magnolias.
Pretty as a picture -- wait, it is!
I should have set up a blanket and just laid back and spent the rest of the week watching the petals rain down on me.
Magnolia bloom season is so fleeting. Laying in this "snow-fall" and piles of "flakes" would have totally been worth the time-out.
* achoooo!
My eyes!
They burn!
Dang green tree haze!
~photos by iTouch
Sunday, May 3, 2015
May Flowers
Spring has finally sprung:
We finally have pink petals raining down through star-burst morning suns. 
We can make our sun salutations through magnolia blossoms.
These are the only snowing trees that we like.
If you don't have time to be outside, bring the cherry blossoms and blooms inside to you.
I think we're finally cautiously optimistic that it's not going to snow again.
Unfortunately, the spring breezes are spreading the misery of the green haze.
Achoo.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Signs of Spring?
With apologies to The Sound of Music:
Raindrops on snowdrops and whistles of song birds.
These are a few of my favorite things.
Despite the almost every other day snow-storms, Mother Nature is trying ....
~photos by iTouch
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
What Season is This Anyway?
Taken on the last day of September.
The zucchini plant still has blossoms on it and the morning glories have finally burst into full bloom this week.
These are strange seasons indeed.
photos by iTouch
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Farewell to Flora: Flowers for Flora
Frumpa did a great job of taking lots of pictures. Here are some of the floral tributes to his Aunt Flora.
left: the spray for Aunt Flora from Grumpa, Aunt Jerry, Aunt Cora and their extended families
right: the casket spray, carefully cropped for those of you who are squeamish
Sprays from Flora's family and the grandchildren
Pallbearers were Flora's grandsons
who then placed their boutonnieres on the casket
in tribute to their Grandma.
Final visits to see floral blankets keeping Flora covered
while other family members: husband, father, uncle, brother, sister, aunt, and cousins
also received tributes from ones who miss them.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Poem of the Day: Surviving Winter
Surviving Winter
It was a dandelion March
Guiltless as a new born child
Boundless as the infinite sky
Yet unfathomnable as the wild;
It was a buttercup April
With depths sweeping and wide
With many a naked flower
Having no need to hide;
It was a daffodil May
As planters come - as planters go
It was pure Springtime
In a brilliantly lit show;
It was the Vic in Victory
The overcoming of the frost
The marrying of a new season
With no seedlings lost.
By Theodora Onken
April 8, 2013
"The overcoming of the frost"
That's the mode we are in right now ..
Trying to overcome and wait for the buttercup April and the daffodil May.
It was a dandelion March
Guiltless as a new born child
Boundless as the infinite sky
Yet unfathomnable as the wild;
It was a buttercup April
With depths sweeping and wide
With many a naked flower
Having no need to hide;
It was a daffodil May
As planters come - as planters go
It was pure Springtime
In a brilliantly lit show;
It was the Vic in Victory
The overcoming of the frost
The marrying of a new season
With no seedlings lost.
By Theodora Onken
April 8, 2013
"The overcoming of the frost"
That's the mode we are in right now ..
Trying to overcome and wait for the buttercup April and the daffodil May.
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Photos of the Day: Cape Cod Cottage
October 2013, Wellfleet, MA
Artists Cottage/Gallery/Display of the Prettiest Mermaid's Purse EVER
Friday, November 8, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Photos of the Day: Last September "Summer" Sunday
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Bee-autiful Sunday afternoon at the New York Botanical Garden with Christine.
Absolutely buzzing with activity as summer hangs on with all her might. Time flies.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
~ To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Gather ye rosebuds)
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Photos of the Day: Beauty in the Details
Sinister Beauty
And can be the most wonderful word in the English language -
if it connects two who loved, and were loved. It's all how it's framed.
When all that loved you have also passed on, Mother Nature will provide Her own floral tributes at your grave.
Thursday, August 8, 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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