In looking through all of my rose pics for 2017, I was just astounded at how many gorgeous roses there were. 2017 must've been a terrific year for roses...and I'm sure the weather was probably perfect, as well!

Hope you all enjoy!

Rose Garden

Point Defiance Park

Tacoma, Washington

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One singular Pink Lewisia Bud.

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Red Geraniums by Bird Mancini

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Park Leuven (Belgium)

My entry for Smile on Staturday theme : Camera

A new flower spike forming on a Coleus at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden last July.

Earlier than expected, my transplanted rose bushes are starting to bloom 😊.

Heeze, The Netherlands

Spectacular-looking, Abutilon striatum (Red Vein Indian Mallow)

an evergreen shrub bearing a profusion of showy, orange, bell-shaped flowers, 2 in. across (5 cm), adorned with prominent crimson veining. Resembling Chinese lanterns, they dangle like porcelain earrings from extraordinarily long stalks.

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Scilla peruviana, the Portuguese squill in bud just before it comes out to flower.

Taken in the Queen Elizabeth Temperate House, The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park Mar '16.

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This is how Queen Anne's Lace protect their next generations stay close each other.It's like in the nest with a hope to come back next year

Your smile is someone else's sunshine

TREES

What trees try to say

in their slow silence, their vague murmuring,

the sense they have, there where they are,

the reverence, the resonance, the transparency

and the bright and shadowy accents of an airy phrase.

And the shade and the leaves are the innocence of an idea

that between water and space turned itself to lithe integrity.

Beneath the magic breath of the light they are transparent boats.

I don’t know if it’s air or blood budding from their boughs.

I hear the finest foam of their green throats.

I am not, never will be, far from that pure water

and those ancient lamps of hidden isles.

What pure serenity of memory, what horizons

surrounding the silent well! It is a song in sleep

and the wind and light are the breath of a child

who upon a bough of a tree embraces the world.

Antonio Ramos Rosa

Translation: Alexis Levitin

Beside The River....

To celebrate the last day, of summer and the first day of Fall Karen and I made a day trip to Limehouse Ontario, on our way we stopped in the hamlet of Glen Williams taking a moment for a walk along the credit river, all along the riverbank tiny flowers were budding; casting their purple and pale blue in the reflection of the dark waters of the credit river.

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I was out walking and I saw this Magnolia tree just coming into bud.

Pelargonium.

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Magnolia bud shedding it's fur coat.

Nikkor Micro 60mm f/2.8 D Lens.

Kardinaalsmuts, Garden, Hengelo, The Netherlands

Blue Tit.....