Category Archives: Flower images

Jade Plant: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge, 8/13/15

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Jade Plant

This was my friend Chuy’s plant and every time I look at it, I think of him.  He used to take my friend Betty and me out into the small villages to see precolumbian artifacts and ruins.  IMG_3680I love the buds as much as the flowers–the shading and the tight little promise of delicate white flowers to come.

IMG_3691IMG_3684They are like presents that open themselves.  Every day a new collection of perfect blooms.

IMG_3689IMG_3687 IMG_3685 IMG_3682Impossible to choose a favorite shot, so I’ll be as profuse as the plant and just include them all!

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/13/flower-of-the-day-august-13-2015-hydrangea-bush/

Cee’s Flower of the Day, 8/12/15

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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 8/12/15
Today I just wanted to play with a detail of one rather wilted Thunbergia blossom that I snapped a picture of.  I just wanted to use it in a painterly way to see how far the image could be stretched. I’m rather limited in my editing choices, but it was fun.


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http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/12/flower-of-the-day-august-12-2015-ryan-c-dahlia/

Mexican Color:Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Mexican Color: Cee’s Flower of the day Challenge

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Still Don’t Know the Name of This Flower! Cee’s Flower of the Day, Aug. 10, 20

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                                           Still Don’t Know the Name of This Flower!


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IMG_3536I am still trying to remember the name of this flower.  I have a paler variety at home but these beauties are in bloom on the Lake Chapala Society grounds. I love the seed pods as well, so I’m showing one above.  They burst open and spill out the black bee bee seeds, insuring a new generation of plants.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/10/flower-of-the-day-august-10-2015-rose/

Heartleaf Ice Plant, nee Baby Sunrose, nee Red Apple Ice Plant (Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge, Aug 9, 2015)

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Heartleaf Ice Plant, nee Baby Sunrose, nee Red Apple Ice Plant

IMG_3280 IMG_3277I have loved ice plant ever since I first spied it in CA and brought cuttings back to my greenhouse room in Wyoming.  I have been known to pull off the hiway to pinch off a chain of ice plant.  The beach was another favorite gathering place.  Now I live surrounded by it–growing from planters, along sidewalks and crawling over pumice grinding stones hundreds of years old.

See Cee’s and other flowers of the day HERE.

Tulip Tree with Kiskadee : Cee’s Flower of the Day, August 5, 2015

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Tulip Tree with Kiskadee


IMG_3216This fellow was at the opposite end of the lot at the top of a giant African Tulip Tree.  Thanks to the wonderful zoom on my new Canon camera, I captured him!  Thanks, Canon.

IMG_3222He was catching bugs as they went by.  You can see one in his beak in this photo.

IMG_3223Here you can see him going after yet another fly.  It was an almost constant repetition of a theme.  A great hunting ground!  My shutter speed wasn’t fast enough to freeze his movement, but at least the flowers were in focus!

IMG_3230And then he flew away! He always returned, but my mind turned to other things, and two days later I had this nice surprise on my camera when I finally got around to downloading the pictures from my camera.  Another day’s challenge met!!!

(In Mexico, the name for the African Tulip Tree is Tulipan.  It is also sometimes called a Fountain Tree.)

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/05/flower-of-the-day-august-5-2015-delphinium/

Tabachine (Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge, Aug. 4, 2015)

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Tabachine: Showy, Outrageous and Beloved by ButterfliesVersion 2 IMG_2525 IMG_2526 IMG_2528Known also as the Poinciana,  Dwarf Poinciana, or Bush Poinciana–this smaller version of the Royal Poinciana Tree is known as a Tabachine in Mexico,

To see Cee’s outrageous hibiscus macro, go HERE

Plumeria (Frangipani) : Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge–Aug 3

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Plumeria (Frangipani)

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You have never seen clover in this detail!  Have a look at further flower pix:  http://ceenphotography.com/2015/08/03/flower-of-the-day-august-3-2015-clover/

Thunbergia Grandiflora–Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Thunbergia Grandiflora–Blue flowers to go with last night’s blue moon!

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To see Cee’s dahlia and other blooms go here:
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/07/31/flower-of-the-day-july-31-2015-dahlia/

Succulent Bloom:Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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IMG_2501I don’t know why out of the dozens of pictures I took of more exotic flowers that I decided to post this little succulent bloom.  It was tiny–Much magnified here.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/07/29/flower-of-the-day-july-29-2015-daffodil/