growing in my garden

Bleeding Heart

Dead black leaves hang as red flowers start to bloom, it almost seems like the tree is bleeding.

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This bleeding heart plant is transplant from my grandmother. She passed away a few years ago that this is always a nice reminder that she is always with my family.

A UVIVF image of a Bleeding Heart flower.

Yes I am a bleeding heart for such causes that are so needy. It is also the name of these lovely baubles by EarthStones.

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Cheers Mate!

bleeding hearts in the backgarden

dicentra

German: Tränendes Herz

Lets meet at the bleeding heart bench.

This mini-pond had been cut off from the river due to the heat and so instead of the usual flowing water is was just a pond with all sorts growing in it and I found all the branches of tree or roots had begin to have this bleeding colour on it.

Sometimes life feels like it gives you one prickly, puffy bud after another, she said.

But look how beautiful they can be when you see it in this light, the voice said.

And she immediately pictured herself in a flowing white gown, gauzy material billowing in the cold, morning wind...

All beautiful and brazen and bleeding blissfully to death in the light of her perfect sunrise.

Backstory: This one from the same set two morning ago when the lake was frosty and the surrounding trees had a foggy mist around them. I woke up and saw this scene from outside my bedroom window and thought, how absolutely perfectly beautiful that is.

Now, like any self-respecting (read: a little crazy in the head) photographer I know, the following dialogue ensues in my head:

Should we go?

Are you crazy?!? It's barely seven in the freaking freezing morning!

But it's so pretty out there. Surely it would be such a waste to let that beauty go without even one shot...

Oh, blimey shot my foot. You go, I'm going back to bed.

And on and on it goes for a couple more minutes.

When The Voice speaks.

This time it said one neat word:

Go.

I've learned that when the Voice, yes with the capital V (for victorious? vicious - in its single-mindedness?!? Vivacious. Yes, I like that.) speaks, I listen. I mostly end up sad when I don't. And usually it speaks in much shorter, calmer, gentler sentences.

Go.

So with my crystal clear, gentle yet firm marching order in hand, I proceeded.

Camera bag? Check.

Fully-loaded battery? Check.

Tripod just in case? Check.

All bundled up from head to toe like a burito? Check!

I was at my loon lake across the street by 7:20AM in foggy, frosty, 5ºC weather.

Guess who decides to tag along, much to my surprise and delight as this one never ever wakes up for any of these naturey crap moments: my beloved Cave Man. BCM for short.

I miss him. :(

You know what's funny about these marching orders from disembodied Voices that speak in crystal clear short sentences? They're so potent that even the ones in your peripherals get with the program. ;))

Happy Weekend All

Plants of my hamestead

These delicate guys are an annual treat in our small backyard garden.

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What a very appropriate name for this plant.

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Oh my bleeding heart!

Taken at City Hall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

My heart is bleeding right now as my dear sweet big boy Elliot has been sick and after a battery of tests, the prognosis is not good.. He has diabetes and renal (kidney) failure..

I will spend as much time with him as I'm able and cherish these last days with him ♥

this beautiful flower is blooming in the garden now - I´m very proud of it

Well named.

this was inspierd by a bad time in my life as a dailysis patient, when i was in hospital a lot having blood transfutions and the doctors couldent find out why my blood was so low and still dropping, had a lot of painful and sceary tests for most of the big shit that can happpen to poeple but it was some thing in the water in the local reservoir to stop blue green algie from growing that was the problem

I hate to frighten you, dear visitors, but one has to face the fact that this stone appears to be bleeding.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

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Botanical name is Clerodendrum thomsoniae. Love those crimson pearls about to be 'released' from its heart...or 'caught by love'? :)

This pic was taken in the shade, three days after the previous pic ...what a change in growth! More info

This is the elusive Arctic Bleeding Heart (Dicentra peregrina) which is related to the familiar garden flower Dicentra spectabilis. This plant grows on bare tundra and is only found in Japan and Northeast Siberia. I photographed this on a rainy day at Meinypilgyno in Chukotka. The entire plant was barely 3cm tall but had an exquisitely beautiful pink heart-shaped flower.

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran

Beautiful bleeding heart dove (Gallicolumba luzonica) found at the Toronto Zoo. This gorgeous little feller did not shy from the large crowd--instead he struck a pose!

Just playing with Lightroom.

Always one of my favorite spring flowers. Reminds me of my child hood. My mom had bunches of these growing on the side of our house. These are from my garden in Candia NH.

LG cellphone image. I was able to focus closer than I thought.