~ a flower for your friday ~ I hope the next day or two brings you some opportunities to savor these last hours of summer. Looking back, I feel a bit…
a flower for your friday
Beautiful butterfly pictures from Clover and Ivy. I hope you stop for a visit as there are many more lovely photos to be enjoyed.
We are having a very lovely month with sunny warmth and windless days.
There are many flowers still blooming away and not showing any signs yet of slowing down.
Lots of sunflowers are still fresh and vibrant in their daily sun-follow.
This frilly rose could have easily been a spring bud, but it decided to wait.
Although it’s late for peonies, their heady scent and massive blooms are still lingering in some gardens, depending on their cultivar.
Happy Sunday.
I like to walk to the Penticton rose garden to sit and admire it (and sometimes to take photos).
Right now, it seems to be at its height of loveliness.
It’s a very calming, very serene spot to just enjoy sitting outside.
Happy Thursday.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
~ Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
[We have] our memories so that we might have roses in December.
~ J.M. Barrie
Of all the flowers, methinks a rose is best.
~ Fletcher and Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
~ Alphonse Karr, Lettres Écrites De Mon Jardin
Happy Monday.
These late summer roses remind me of ice cream.
So pretty and summery; they look like my favourite seasonal treat.
Happy Sunday.,
I found a group of sunflowers growing seemingly of their own accord among a gaggle of unkempt roses and weeds.
The plants themselves were leaning badly but were still interesting to pollinators (and flower photographers).
Sunflowers are such iconic representatives of autumn with their lovely sunny faces.
Happy sunflower Wednesday.
I went back to Carroll Creek Park in downtown Frederick for more brilliant water lilies last weekend.
More Water Lilies at Carroll Creek Park
Here is a gorgeous set of water lily photos from Stephen Hung. I hope you click the link above to see more of them.
Have a good day.
I always find pond lilies so pretty.
Usually the wild ones I see are white, but here are some red ones.
Have a good Monday.
Although red might be associated more with autumn, it’s a ubiquitous summer colour, as well. Here’s a selection demonstrating my favourite.
Happy Wednesday.
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