My plumeria tree has plenty of buds and a few blossoms but weird fruit! My aim was a bit off while throwing the ball for Morrie from the pool. This time, I fetched.
For Cee’s Gorgeous and unique Amaryllis, go HERE.
These pesky little flowers are taking over my yard. I had to build a patio over one patch of ground they’d infested. It was the only way to get rid of them. They are sorta pretty closeup and much enlarged, but still, a pest is a pest.
In September and October, the fields on the way to the mountain town of Tapalpa, a few hours from my home, fill with millions of flowers, including acres and acres of cosmos. These photos were taken ten years ago and Oscar, the little boy in this photo, is now 12 years old. Perhaps it is time to take his little sister up into the fields this year!
Cee’s posting of her cosmos flowers today prompted me to echo her post.
Not many zinnias this year. This little fellow was a volunteer, peeping out from underneath the stone at the base of a palm tree.
For Cee’s Daily Flower Prompt.
See poem below flower collage. (All photos by jdb. Please click on first photo to enlarge all.)
Don’t Pick the Daisies
Please leave those daisies in their wrapper.
I find them just too pert and dapper.
I prefer a floral decoration
prone to promote excitation.
I’d choose something a little queer
to be used as a boutonniere.
Yes, I agree, daisies are cute
but aren’t held in good repute
for inclusion in bouquets exotic.
They aren’t sufficiently chaotic.
All their little petals are spread
in order. They are too well-bred.
I like my flowers with frisky sproutings,
curling ‘rounds and sticking-outings––
birds of paradise well hung
with orange feathers and bright blue tongue.
I admit, I am a binger
on passionflower and wild ginger,
on orchid and bromeliad.
Daisies I find a little sad––
too Doris Day and sixtyish.
A bit of odd is what I wish
for when I choose to pick a flower
for an arrangement or a bower.
Give me heliconia,
proteus or begonia.
For an occasion that is formal,
daisies, dear, are just too normal.
For my mother Pat who liked her food plain and her flowers exotic. XOXOXO
https://dutchgoesthephoto.net/2018/02/06/tuesday-photo-challenge-exotic/
This poem and floral collage were prompted by an earlier post in answer to Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt.
See Cee’s gorgeous clematis here: https://ceenphotography.com/2017/08/03/short-break-and-flower-of-the-day-august-4-2017-clematis/
jdbphoto
Hard to tell if this star flower is about to burst or in the act of bursting.
For Cee’s Flower Prompt.
Click on first photo to enlarge all. I love the juxtaposition of the frilly gold flowers next to the stark cacti. This house has been being built for years. Glad they planted their wall vegetation early.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 