Category Archives: Flower images

Lily White: Flower of the Day 11/1/15

Lily WhiteIMG_7456 IMG_7461 IMG_7457

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Halloween Colors: Flower of the Day 10/31/15

Halloween Color

IMG_7403Marigolds are seen in profusion on Day of the Day altars and graveyards.  I snapped these at the Lake Chapala Society during a lull in the rain today.

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Baby Sun Rose on Metate–Flower of the Day 10/29/15

Baby Sun Rose on Metate

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IMG_7185 (1)Version 3I love these ancient grinding stones of Mexico and have about a dozen of them scattered through my garden.  My plants crawl over them like jungle growth reclaiming the pyramids and other monuments of Mexico!

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/29/flower-of-the-day-october-29-2015-cactus-flower/

Rain-heavy Hibiscus:Flower of the day 10/25/15

                                              Rain-heavy HibiscusIMG_7052For Cee’s Dahlia and other flowers, go HERE.

Nosegay: Cee’s Flower A Day Challenge 10/12/15

Nosegay

Version 2Where did I find this nosegay?  Not real, but pretty?

Version 2On this sugar skull made by one of the few kids who braved the threat of the weather to come to the sull decorating yesterday. The afternoon session was cancelled, schools shut down and I was advised by Proteccion Civil to leave my house as they feared landslides.  I’m back in my house after a big and frustrating adventure which I am about to write about.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/23/flower-of-the-day-october-23-2015-dahlia/

Hide-And-Go-Seek: Flower of the Day Challenge, 10/22/15

                                             Hide-And-Go-Seek

The rain started while we were watching an incredible Iranian film at the Lake Chapala Society.  When we emerged, the rain was a surprise, even though we’d been warned about the big tropical storm about to hit–a long arm of Hurricane Patricia that is predicted to arrive with full force at midnight tomorrow.  I have started to prepare–butane camp cooker, bottles of water freezing in the freezer, candles and oil lamps out, cooking food ahead as I’m about out of gas and I know I have a gas leak.  How could I use $200 worth of gas in three weeks?

Anyway, we decided to be kids and enjoy the block long walk to the car in the rain and were rewarded, when we ducked under cover of the little outside restaurant that was halfway to the gate of LCS, with a view of an incredible orchid tree.  (My name.  I don’t know what it is.)  An added bonus was that I was under the cover of the roof of the open air little restaurant and so I didn’t have to risk getting my lens wet.

It was only after I got home and started playing with the pictures that I spied the various little characters hidden in the flowers.  See if you can find them.

IMG_6938Can you find the koala bear?  Some may think he has more in common with a polar bear.

IMG_6939Mr. Frog is enjoying the rain.

IMG_6941Little bird is hungry, but old grandfather mouse is just wet and disgusted.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/22/flower-of-the-day-october-22-2015-dahlia-backs/

Spanish Dancer at Midnight: Flower of the Day, 10/21/15

Spanish Dancer at Midnight

IMG_6829The name of this variety of hibiscus really is Spanish Dancer! Another of my shots taken after midnight with the help of a flashlight. From this angle you can’t see the pinkish red at the center of the inside.

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                                                                    Vampire HibiscusIMG_6840Another shot taken on my after midnight photo shoot in the garden.  This one was taken with only a flashlight for illumination.  The richness combined with the deep red of the anthers  brought to mind another denizen of the night.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/20/flower-of-the-day-october-20-2015-tulip-bud/

Nighttime Hibiscus: Flower of the Day 10/19/15

IMG_6839 Version 2I’ve never tried to take pictures of flowers at night before!!!  I took a flashlight and popped out the flash as well.  Kind of nippy out there in my nightgown, but it was so much fun!!!! I always thought hibiscus closed up at night, but here is proof they don’t! Tomorrow, I’ll show the color shots, but for some reason I preferred the black and whites.  Ghostlier, I guess.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/19/flower-of-the-day-october-19-2015-rhododendron/

Zinnia Zoom: Flower of the Day, 10/18/15

 Zinnia Zoom
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IMG_6390I am constantly amazed by what happens as I zoom in on a flower.  There is an entire new world revealed at each stage of the zoom!  In this way, a flower is a good parallel to everything.  The closer we look, the more complex everything is revealed to be.  This is why I like poetry.  It is the microbiology of words.

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