Taken in Canons Park, Stanmore.

Taken while working in the garden :-)

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Lilacs are blooming right now and their fragrance is just amazing. This type of lilac is the most common and it's often grown in hedges.

Edited with effects in Topaz Studio

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Lilacs have started to bloom.

My home-grown little white lilac is flowering for the first time!

What joy!

It's cold, blowing a gale and we've had showers of hailstones so back to normal British Bank Holiday weekend weather!!! Hope it's better where you are.

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From the lilac bush in my garden

No need to wait for a son or a daughter to bring you flower when you can get a nice bouquet from a tree.... I will enjoy the lilac for a few days. To all the moms in Canada and USA celebrating Mother's Day today May 14, I hope you had a wonderful day ( I did with a nice hike this morning and a excellent dinner last night with my family)

Je ne suis pas du genre a avoir des attentes pour un cadeau pour la fête des Mères..je me suis fait plaisir en coupant ce lilas et je vais l'apprécier pendant quelques jours. A toutes les mamans du Canada et USA , Bonne fête des Mères.

Lilac

Lilacs have returned to the Cowichan Valley

lilac

Food for thought... "Be Happy", it makes other people craazy, lol =)

The Lilac-breasted roller is a beautifully colored African bird known for its acrobatic aerial displays during the breeding season. The sexes look similar, and juveniles lack the long tail streamers of adults. This species is unofficially considered the national bird of Kenya.

Mara North Conservancy, Kenya

coracias caudatus

vorkstaartscharrelaar

rollier à longs brins

Gabelracke

Carraca Lila

Ghiandaia marina pettolilla

rolieiro-de-peito-lilás

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Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Fortunately, Lilac-breasted Rollers are common birds that I’ve seen in both eastern and southern Africa. They post up on shrubs and trees and hawk insects in the air and on the ground. I was told that they get their name from mating display flights which I saw for the first time on this trip. One will fly high in the air and perform a nice acrobatic roll over. I’m not sure if it impressed the gal it was going for but I was sure impressed. (Coracias caudates) (Sony a1M2, 200-600mm lens @ 600mm, f/6.3, 1/2000 second, ISO 1600)

Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

lilac

Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), an African member of the roller (or Coraciidae) family. Known to sit on prominent perches in open woodland and lightly-treed grasslands.

Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana.

Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Wild South Africa

Kruger National Park

Longwood Gardens Pa.

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Lilacs with dew