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It's been a long winter, but spring has arrived. My camera has been wonky, but it seems to be taking pictures anyhow. So maybe I can get back into taking pictures again.
The long-lived ‘Royal Iris’ plied the Mersey between Seacombe Landing in Wallasey and Liverpool Pier Head between 1950 and 1991, enjoying her peak of fame during the Merseybeat era. Salford-born artist L.S.Lowry captured her distinctive streamline profile in this 1963 painting, now on display at the Walker Art Gallery.
The MV Royal Iris is still extant, but she is at serious risk of being scrapped. In 2002, she was towed to the River Thames, but a project to convert her to a floating nightclub never came to fruition.
Two shots taken near the end of the North Country Trail in Middleville, MI.
This GORGEOUS solitary iris was growing next to the gazebo that marks the end of the trail.
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"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." ~ Georgia O'Keefe
When I was little, there were many Iris japonica in my old garden. Today the same flowers are blooming in my garden,too.
It is my memorial flower . It reminds me of my childhood.
"Thou art the Iris, fair among the fairest,
Who, armed with golden rod
And winged with the celestial azure, bearest
The message of some God."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Iris, natural light, focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/16456841832/ for a 3D version
Iris, natural light, focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/16275689939/ for a 3D version