Tag Archives: Flowers of Mexico

Color Your World Fuchsia and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Fuchsia

I had run down the street for two blocks in a long beach coverup quickly thrown over my nightgown when I heard the crazy rodeo parade approaching my house at 11 o’clock at night.  The night before it had gone on from about 7:30 to at least 2 a.m. when I went to bed.  I’d somehow missed it going by when I was dancing at Palapa Joe’s so I didn’t want to miss it tonight.  I was walking back home when I spied these little flowers and I kept bending lower to get them in more detail.  When I looked up I saw this BIG guy who must have been the cook in the palapa restaurant I was standing in front of, taking the picture.  He was sitting in a straight chair in the parking lot—probably out to catch a spare breeze as the night was still hot.  “You can see beauty in a single flower?” he asked me.  When I nodded my head and said, “Mmhmm,” he just smiled and nodded his head.  Such a nice little interchange and nice final human contact for the day.

More about my day will follow.

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/06/color-your-world-fuchsia/

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/06/flower-of-the-day-february-7-2016-dahlia/

Dusty Petals: Flower of the Day, Jan. 25, 2016

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                                                               Dusty Petals

There are not an excessive number of flowers in La Manzanilla, but I found these little blooms down the street in a strip of soil near the curb, well-dusted by traffic on the sandy pavers.  If anyone knows what they are, please let me know.

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For more flowers, see: http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/25/flower-of-the-day-january-25-2016-parrot-tulip/

Teenie Weenie

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Teenie Weenie: Prompt Stomp Week 14, 2016

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This is a tiny portion of a compound flower that is not that impressive in it’s totality, but this one little bloom blown up in size is so elegant, I think. All of these blooms and details of plants are easy to overlook when they are life-sized.  Their beauty mainly shows in closeup.

For more closeups, go here:

https://themomhood.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/prompt-stomp-week-14/

Yellow!!!Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge Jan 13, 2016

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                                                                              Yellow!!!

IMG_1011Finally!!!! I’ve been saving this one for this challenge for weeks now and keep bringing it up from my desktop.  I’ve never seen a yellow poinsettia before and think it probably changed from green to yellow to white or some other color, but I loved it at this stage!!  So glad to finally be able to use it.  I promise no more poinsettias for awhile.  Well, unless there’s a really neat one!!!  Backsliding already.

White: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

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White

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http://ceenphotography.com/2016/01/05/cees-fun-foto-challenge-white-flowers/

Morning Glory: Flower of the Day Dec 9, 2015

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I think the morning glory is the hardest of all flowers to capture. Perhaps it is because it doesn’t have much dimension from it’s most interesting angle. I’ve photographed dozens, but this is the first one I’ve even considered using.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/12/09/flower-of-the-day-december-9-2015-columbine/

???:Flower of the Day Challenge11/24/15

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I don’t know what this lovely little green flower on its pink stem is, but if you do, I’ll love to have you tell me its name.

To see Cee and others who know the names of their flowers, go HERE.

Bleached Hibiscus: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Bleached Hibiscus

IMG_5477I can’t compete with that deep red, Cee, so I’m going in the opposite direction. Here is an hibiscus with the color drained out of it. I would love to have one that was really this color! (Or lack of color.)

I was given this flower today so want to share it. See:  http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/07/flower-of-the-day-october-7-2015-hibiscus-for-judy/

Heavenly Hibiscus:Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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                                                   Heavenly HibiscusIMG_5843 IMG_5845 IMG_5849 I found this gorgeous hibiscus outside the Casa del Sol B&B in Ajijic. I’ve been there twice in the past week for a Feria fashion show and then for a board meeting.  I broke my vow to never again attend a board meeting when I moved to Mexico!  Finally, after 14 years, I went to the Feria board meeting to find out what my duties as “coordinator of artist gifts” will be. (I’m not sure that is my title, but yeah, I caved for this very good cause.  I’ll give you more information later.)  It you love Mexican art (and if you live north of the border, you’ve never really seen the “real” stuff done by artists and artisans who continue centuries old traditions) you would love the Feria de Maestros del Arte! But more about that later.

“Cee” dahlias and more flowers here: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/03/flower-of-the-day-october-4-2015-dahlia/

“Found” Mystery Flower: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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DSC00012 (1)I thought perhaps this was a variety of Clematis, but the stamen and pistils are wrong.  If you know what it is, please let me know!

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/10/03/flower-of-the-day-october-4-2015-dahlia/