Category: gardening

pear blossom profile

What a stunner. I hope they follow through & bare fruit. I hope we get to eat some before all the animals out at the lake eat them first.

a thorn dressing as a flower

That thorn is longer then an inch. Mean looking thing. I wonder why it needs that much protection? What is it hiding? Maybe, like the hydrangea, it tastes delicious so as a result it grew that weapon. Maybe I should dig it up & plant it beside the blueberries.

pouty flowers

I love these depressed roses. I have some & question why I bought them. To see their blossoms, you have to pick them up. Are they the way they are because they long to be touched? These were at the Botanical Gardens & were not so pouty, maybe mine are teenagers.

Southern Sycamore reflected in the pond water

This tree starts out a light tan color, sort of freckled with browns of all shades. Then at some point in it’s beautiful life, the bark falls off, leaving behind a bone white tree. Shockingly white against any color the sky chooses to be. It is one of my favorites in Alabama, because in a…

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painted purple tulips

These beauties where found in Whole Foods. Iphone image means I give myself license to paint.

nothing but WOW

When I first saw this I thought maybe that is a bit too much of the same color, then I decided it passed the muster, then I was found it shockingly beautiful.

red, red, red beauty

I’ve never found these so red before. So I shall keep them forever in pictures