Zealous Zinnias
Just when you think all these ladies have left the dance, several pop up in a different place!.
Shady Lady and Pup
“Cee” more floweres HERE!
Zinnia: cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge, 9/29/15
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Throw Away: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 9/27/15
Throw Away
As I go through my pictures on days I’m not in the mood to go take new photos, trying to remember which ones I’ve already used on my blog, I also take the time to delete photos I know I will never use. But today I got a wild idea and decided to restore the picture I’d just deleted and see if there was any part of it I could use. After an hour or two of playing, I came up with fourteen possibilities. I’m posting them all, and at the end, the picture of the giant blooming castor bean plant they all came from.
Below is the unedited photo I threw away and then retrieved–the mother of them all:
I guess the moral of the story is that there are lots of possibilities in even a picture you think doesn’t warrant saving. Unfortunately, I see this potential in other parts of my life as well, which is why I got distracted waiting for all these photos to download to my media file and started sorting closets. I’m proud to say I sorted out a big box of clothes to give away and another to sell. Photos are an easy thing to hold on to because they don’t take up much space, and if all else fails you can send them to the cloud. Now if they could just invent a cloud for the rest of the clutter of my life!!!.
Do not miss this photo: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/27/flower-of-the-day-september-27-2015-bashful-dahlia/
More Aloe Flowers–Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 09/24/15
Tabachine: Flower of the Day
This Tabachine (Dwarf Poinciana, Flame Tree, Flamboyant) bush almost hurts the eyes. It was actually swarming with dozens of black swallowtails, but I managed to catch just one in my lens. They move fast.
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/15/flower-of-the-day-september-15-2015-mango-madness-dahlia/
More Tapalpa Flowers
More Tapalpa Flowers
I’ve always thought this Tapalpa scene looked like a scene from a French painting–the mist, the trees and the muted colors of the fields of flowers in the background.
And here are other scenes from the day’s outing. Fourteen of us traveling in my van, including me, (taking the picture) and baby Oscar who is hidden in his sister’s arms.
I was trying to compensate for the shadows on the girls’ faces here and perhaps overdid it a bit. Reminds me of the bright Kodacolor prints of the sixties!
http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/14/flower-of-the-day-september-14-2015-maarn-dahlia/
Pickin’ Petals Flower Farm: Flower of the Day
PETAL PICKIN’
For my flower of the day today, I want to give you a link to an incredible nursery. You won’t believe what you’ll see there. Incredible! Here it is: https://freshcutky.wordpress.com/
Don’t miss this one by Cee, or the others who have links on her blog: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/13/flower-of-the-day-september-13-2015-bashful-dahlia/
Oscar and Carmen Play with Flowers (Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge)
Oscar and Carmen Play with Flowers
I think there were twelve of us in my full-sized van that day, off to see the wildflowers and rocks of Tapalpa. This series of pictures is all about Carmen and Oscar. Oscar is the little boy you saw diligently doing his English homework at my dining room table a few days ago. He is now nine. In these pictures he is two. Carmen is his sister and stylist.
Oscar was pretty happy with his handful of pristine white flowers
But Carmen had a better idea.
She looked beautiful in her cosmos garland, in spite of the sun in her eyes that gave her a wistful look.
But she had further plans.
And I’m not too sure how Oscar feels about his sister’s attempt to spruce up his look, but I thought he looked adorable!
For more gorgeous flowers, go HERE.
Greens: Flower of the Day 9/8/15
Greens: Flower of the Day
I love the fragility of these green palm blossoms. Soon they will fall like rain.
Some leaves, such as these on jade plants and other succulents, imitate flowers. 
To view Cee’s flower and others, go HERE.
Birds of Paradise: Flower of the Day, 9/7/15
More Orange Bougainvilleas: Flower of the day
More Orange Bougainvilleas
Okay, more orange bougainvilleaS, but this time with the real flowers : (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Each of those little coral pistil-looking rods is actually a flower bud getting ready to open. Since my last bougainvilleas post, most of them have opened, giving the bougainvillieas a fluffier look! I like both stages–sparse and frilly! In Mexico, they are bugambilias and they have many namesakes: housing developments, shopping centers, movie theaters.
See more flowers here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/06/flower-of-the-day-september-6-2015-dahlia/
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