Close-up of the petals, stigma and stamen of a purple Clematis flower

Vancouver, BC

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Floria Festival Putrajaya

When I was a boy our primary school football team played in these colours and we referrred to the team colours as...

i think it cool the cruel curl.

Painted in PSP9 (cept the butterflies, they are picture tubes.) Ripple made with eye candy plug in filter.

Magnolia petals down, Portland, ME.

~ Isaac Hayes.

Just trying to be creative...

Come to think of it, rose petals and panties do go together. Portland's International Rose Test Garden, June 2006.

Maggie Orth Petal Pusher

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Found this pretty wee flower in our garden. Although I don't know what kind of flower it is, I liked the look of it with it's stacked petals.

Look Back, Act Forward

Remembrance Week, October 28 - November 3, 2018

A couple more shots from the sweat pea series.

Snow sitting in the petals of a rose.

Close-up of a pink tulip blossom with other pink tulips and blue in the background. To license this image, contact: image@johnbald.net. To order a print, please click here for my prints page.

This was the shot that I was going to use for A Burst of Color but then I changed my mind when I saw the clouds tonight.

Rumi Poems-petals

Petals Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn't bend in pain. "Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh." Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain. A Sheikh was asked: "What is Sufism?" He said: "To feel joy in the heart when sorrow appears." -