Taken while working in the garden :-)

Our Backyard

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Magnified :-)

Lilacs have started to bloom.

The beautiful lilac tones first attracted me to this rose, so unusual and delicate looking.To fill the frame ,I experimented and double exposed the image.

From my son's garden

From the lilac bush in my garden

Lilacs have returned to the Cowichan Valley

I took this photo from my neighbors California Lilac.

Our lilacs are making the air smell so perfumed.

all beautyful ********

I could not resist one more lilac shot.

Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

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Attractive common lilac 'Sensation' at New York Botanical Garden (NYBG).

Common Lilac

Syringa Vulgaris

'Sensation'

Oleaceae

Maarse, The Netherlands, 1938

The common Lilac, this is very special to me because when I Planted the Lilac bush my two yorkshire terriers ashes were scattred into the soil and it never fails to produce beautiful flowers.

Thanks for looking

correctly I.D.by Murray McFarlane murraymcfarlane

Incorrectly thought (by ME) to be a Blue Bellied Roller (Coracias cyanogaster) 😮

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The sun shining through the lilacs on a beautiful spring day.

52 Week Challenge. 50. In my Garden.

My lilac tree near my back door always produces lovely, fragrant blossoms that I look forward to every spring. This was taken after a rain.

Flieder, IGA Berlin 2017

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Neighbor's lilac, afternoon light.