This tulip looks a bit sleepy ;-)))

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London

Tulip.

Queen's House, London

Hello dear friends.

I´m on my feet again , slowly , slowly, I'll be back.

A lot of training right now, and it's hard to sit at the computer.

But I'm glad that finally I'll soon have two healthy knees to go with it.

Thanks for all the encouraging greetings.

For Smile on Saturday theme, "Vases and Flowerpots."

It's beautiful here in Holland, MI, this time of year. The annual Tulip Time is in full swing. I took this picture 10 days ago so these tulips are probably getting past their peak. A lack of sun and time prevented me from getting back to these blossoms and shooting them in full bloom.

Hope everyone's keeping well. Many thanks for all the very kind comments, faves and follows. They are very much appreciated.

Tulips from Holland, MI yesterday.

Sliders Sunday.

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Wishing everyone a happy day!❤️

Splendid Tulip

A colour photograph of tulips.

Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly colored, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colors). They often have a different colored blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring. The tulip's flowers are usually large and are actinomorphic (radially symmetric) and hermaphrodite (contain both male (androecium) and female (gynoecium) characteristics), generally erect, or more rarely pendulous, and are arranged more usually as a single terminal flower, or when pluriflor as two to three (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica), but up to four, flowers on the end of a floriferous stem (scape), which is single arising from amongst the basal leaf rosette. 11717

What's not to like about these gorgeous looking tulips :)

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Closeup image taken during my field trip to the Holland Ridge Farms, in Cream Ridge, New Jersey. Loved the backlit tulip.

Holland Ridge Farms is the biggest U-Pick Flower Farm in the USA. A pristine landscaped farm, bursting with millions of rainbow blooms including their famous tulips. The good news is, you don’t have to travel to the Netherlands to experience it – they’re right here in Cream Ridge, NJ! They currently host two pick your own flower seasons – U-Pick Tulips in the spring and U-Pick Sunflowers in the fall.

This farm is a hotspot for photography and the perfect place to celebrate life’s biggest milestones – first dates, proposals, engagement shoots, wedding shoots, maternity shoots, wedding anniversaries, birthdays etc. It is considered one of the top spots to visit on the East Coast. Hundreds of thousands of guests flock to the farm to see the millions of blooms. Their impressive flower fields also make the perfect backdrop for beautiful photos.

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Tulips that were fading fast but still had the potential to provide a decent photo. A record shot a bit arty and a macro. Indoors against a white background with a bit of light and colour manipulation.

Taken in Tulip garden, Srinagar, Kashmir Himalayas, India

I bought tulips for last week's CC Challenge but they refused to open in time. They still haven't opened much and now the leaves are turning brown. Time to buy some more. : )

“Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy."

Rebecca Wells

Me too Rebecca!! one of my favourite cut flowers....

textures thanks to Kerstin Frank.

Finally found some spring flowers in a local garden! Tulips are usually the first to bloom.

I was walking with my daughter when she was little, and she asked me "Mommy are those roses". I told her no, they were tulips. And she said, "Where are the Onelips, are they lonely?"

From that day on, we never called them Tulips, they've always been Onelips. ♥

Taken at Zaanse Schans: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Overland%20Hills/127/175/18

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It´s May which means long sunny days and light from early on until late in the night time. The most gorgeous flowers are approving everywhere in parks, roads and fields and gardens, like this multi colorful tulip.

Have a lovely and sunny Sunday all :)

After an unusually cold April some of the tulips fields are late to bloom but no less spectacular, especially on a cloudy morning.

Tulips apposed to a popular song are not from Amsterdam ;-) but they certainly do come from Lisse ... tulpen uit amsterdam song

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Three Tulips, in touch with each other.

Double Tulips, speaking a silent language that I seem to understand.

Wouldn't it be a lovely thought, if I had been a beautiful flower in a 'previous' life?

As a youngster, a loner, I spent a lot of time in Musea, admiring the Flemish Masters, I so loved their light!!! I do aim for it in my photography!

I wish you all a very good day and thank you for all your kind words, time, comments and likes. Very much appreciated.

Magda, (*_*)

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