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The Dahlias are stepping up to the plate now, though I took this one when it was being brought on and protected from the slugs and rabbits.
Dahlia - Arbatax.
White, yellow and lilac pink.
The only reference to 'Arbatax' - an unusual name - I can find is a hamlet in Sardinia. I have no idea whether it is named after that.
Orange Tulips.
I was sat at the computer and I noticed the sun getting lower and shining in - not golden hour, when I remembered Julie telling me there were some tulips in a pot outside my patio doors just opening. I went out and put the pot directly between myself and the sun to see what effect it might give. The backdrop is a Euonymus with new leaf growth. I took 9 or 10, it was one of those very rare occasions - for me at least, where after a touch of straightening or cropping which I almost always have to do, I wanted to keep them all and couldn't work out which ones to bin. They were all like this one :^)
Hover fly in the evening sunlight on blue Erigeron (Fleabane).
I think the best version of the Bob Dylan classic Tangled up in Blue is the studio version from the album Blood on the Tracks. But if you like the original KT Tunstall does a fine rendition that is just as good ....
Astrantia - also variously known as Masterwort., Hattie's Pincushion, or Melancholy Gentleman.
Catching a little sun in a very shady area.
...Life blossomed, in its myriad forms, the wonder of Creation and Life manifests through the mists of time.
Soft focus apple blossom.
I somehow managed to move the ISO down to 50 on this one - I have no idea how, I'm always doing that sort of thing. Chuckle. Goes with the territory I suppose. Didn't seem to affect the photograph though it may explain why I had to over expose a little as it appeared a bit dark.....or that could have been the spot metering...... or a comboe......who knows, I just muddle through. Turned out alright in the end and I guess that is wha tmatters :^))
Sigh.
Dahlia - 'Blue Bell'
Throwing buds everywhere.
Normally I like to keep the off shoots out of it - that's just my way, but in this case it was impossible but additionally, I kind of like it here. This is. anew dahlia for us and it is quite noticeable how much the colour changes according to the light.....well all flowers do, but this one more than most.
Blue Erigeron or Fleabane growing a topknot with petals growing directly from the centre of the flower. Actually, quite a few of them did that this year.
There is an interesting aside on this in that every part of a plant, petals, stamen, stem, leaf and root has identical genetic coding, yet each grows into something entirely different. The question is then, what informs it?
Rupert Sheldrake (Cambridge University) has done some interesting work on this in what he calls 'morphogenetic fields' where the information of Life lies in another plane of existence. Of course he has been marginalised for many years for his work as it does not conform with 'established' views and, despite his methods being extremely scientific he is still viewed as 'fringe'. There are some that would say - me included - that what he calls a morphogenetic field, could also be called spirit / consciousness..
Clematis - "Acropolis'.
A fairly new variety (2018) described as 'brilliant pink'. I don't think we'll argue with that!
....now if I can just get a hold there, and stick my tongue out a teeny bit further.....
Little bee practising his mountaineering skills on a geranium.
Saxifrage
In early Spring I put up a couple of photos of Cerastium saying it was probably the smallest flower in the garden. Well it was a coin toss between that and this particular variety of Saxifrage, which also has extremely small flowers. That was taken at almost full magnification, and in apsc mode giving effectively another 50% magnification, and there is also a bit of a crop. It has beautiful design and detail for such a small blossom, very pretty.
Are you your thoughts?
Or the thinker of the thought?
Or that to which thoughts appear?
Is there a difference, and who or what is *I* in this equation....?
Reflections.
And what is reflecting and where are you in that equation....?
These are not questions people normally ask, but they should be. Sometimes the things that seem the most obvious are the things that need the deepest scrutiny .
Yellow Rose
Uni - verse
Solitary Cosmos
Cosmos bipinnatus Dazzler.
Variously described as carmine red, carmine pink, crimson red - guess it depends on the light and soil.
Crab apple blossom, variety - 'Red Sentinel'. Usually the first of the fruit trees to blossom but the pear matched it this year.
Yesterday was a touch of blue, today a hint of orange.
As you can see, this little poppy thought he could hide from old Magoo by blending in with the background......but it didn't work did it..........oh no, Maggoo has a keen rubbish eye :^)))
Bright Orange Poppy
Speedwell - Veronica
Just another weed....
....or a wonderful example of God's artistry?
Perspectives.
Is a happy mind.
Pink Peony.
As I wrote the above I was reminded of the oriental story of the traveller who comes across a monk sat upon a rock by the roadside in peaceful meditation. They begin conversing and the traveller asks the monk...
"Can you tell me the difference between heaven and hell?"
"Yes" says the monk, and returns to his meditation.
"Tell me then" says the traveller but the monk remains silent. The traveller keeps repeating "tell me, tell me:, each time becoming angrier and angrier until at last he picks up a rock and yells -
"Tell me or I will kill you!"
"And there you have it" says the monk "there is the difference".
So a peaceful mind is indeed a happy mind and a mind only becomes peaceful when it is free from desire and aversion and is in full acceptance of what is, and what comes. A mind forever seeking this or avoiding that is a mind of discontent - self evidently.
What's any of that got to do with this flower you might rightly ask - well, it kind of reminded me of the shape of the brain, which led to mind which led to the title, which in turn led to the anecdote. So, if you got this far - odd how things work out.......
Phaeum - 'Samobor'
These very small geraniums are quite difficult to photograph, for me at least. They are small and leggy even though only about 30cm or so tall, but with the buds and flower at the top they dance around in the slightest breeze, so trying to locate them through my 20x magnifier which reduces the LCD size by about 80 or 90% can be tricky. It's worth it though, they are such unusual pretty little things.
Trying to catch a bee can be difficult too even plotting up a single bloom on a still day - actually I haven't succeedded even though they love them - because they are open the bees thump into them and once again they disappear off the screen, by the time I relocate the flower or it returns naturally, the bee is nowhere to be seen! Chuckle.
....or in secrecy - will be brought into the light. A truth made clear either directly or indirectly in ancient scriptures across the globe.
Take the ancient Egyptian symbolic temple wall depictions of the weighing of the soul - what else is that than a visual representation of the above, and the import is clear - all that is done is known to those spiritual authorities that are so empowered.
So politicians beware, secretly doing the bidding of your shadow lurking masters on one hand whilst lying to the public on the other. And all you 'celebs' and 'philanthropist' billionaires who like to announce your 'charitable works', relax, you could have kept mum like many do - its all known, right down to the contents of your heart.
Ultimately, when the final push meets the final shove, there is no such thing as secrecy to the All Knowing Light.
That's all superstitious mumbo jumbo says modern wisdom with a cell phone glued to one hand and a mega latte to the other.......
Really?
(Rose photographed in our garden)
First tiny Wood Anemone of the year. Due to where it was sat that was the only angle I could get on it. I haven't touched that beautiful blue at all, though it is probably slightly deepened by the metering and a 1/3 underexpose.
Blue is the best colour for me for some reason, though I often see pink as blue, everything else is just washed out grey haze in real life, but better on the computer screen where the colours tend to come to life more.
Cardamine Pratensis - a pink wild flower that was growing together with the Speedwell I posted yesterday.
It is also known as 'The Cuckoo Flower' in Britain and is so named as its appearance is said to coincide with the return of the cuckoo. Not sure where they return from - Cuckooville probs.
In folklore it was also said to belong to the fairy folk and was considered bad luck to bring it indoors
I spoke with a farmer about a week ago who said he had heard the cuckoo - so there you go, scoffers beware..... go on, go outside prop a ladder up, pick some Cardamine, walk under the ladder to get back in the house and then open an umbrella as you are arranging the flowers in a vase in the kitchen. I dare you oh doubting scoffer ......live on the edge.....
Campion - Silene Dioica
With a dusky look.
'The Beckoning Lady' was the title of a novel by Margery Allingham featuring fictional detective Albert Campion.
A delicately pale pink rose.
I think it is 'Gardener's Delight'.
I forgot to mark it when I uploaded it.
Winter flowering cherry.
A bit early for the garden cherries yet, but this is a baby tree - about 3 willowy feet tall, grafted and in a pot which has decided to throw out a few blossoms a tad larger than my pinky fingernail.
Prunus Autumnalis Rosea.
...Daffy, wish all my Flickr friends a very happy and peaceful Easter, wherever you are and whatever you believe - because happy is happy and peace is peace, the same wherever you are, in every language, body and mind..
Big smile to you all - Quack!
Doronicum - Leopard's Bane.
This is the same bud I posted unfurling a week ago, now fully open.
It's a bit odd this photo, it appears like a vignette has been put on it but I didn't. I wondered if I was seeing things and asked the boss, but she could see it too. Not sure what caused it, I spot metered but I don't think it was that. Whatever, I quite like it :^)
"Children, the coolness of the breeze, the beams of the moon, the vastness of space and all things of the world-these are all permeated with Divine Consciousness. Knowing and experiencing this Truth is the Goal of human birth."
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
(Sri Anandamayi Ma)
Yellow Osteospermum. - currently being brought on in the greenhouse.
Thought I would finish off the Easter weekend with this trinity of Osteospermums. All the same plant in the same pot in the greenhouse, awaiting planting out. I like the way you can clearly see the 3 stages of development from youngest to oldest. A marked difference.
Osteospermum - African Daisy - 'Evitaa'..