Red maples flower
and greet returning warmth with
rubies in the sky.
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April Gemstones
Category: flowers
Ode to a Maligned Flower
Any bee could set U straight,
“Dandelions are just great.
Where these yellow flowers thrive,
I get nectar for my hive.”
Any bee could let U know,
“Just relax and let them grow.”
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Violets Photobomb Slowly
Red, yellow, and green
did not tell the whole story.
Now, five years later …
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Petals Glow
Warmth and light transform
dark sausage to bright flowers.
Magnolia opens.
Glow ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #367
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Spring Sequence
Flowers first
when cherry trees wake.
Leaves later.
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Peace on Earth, at least with Poinsettias
“Bracts” say botanists.
“Those red things are not petals.”
I just call them leaves.
Merry Xmas!
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Goldenrod
Ah, such a cheery yellow graces the month of September. Alas, ragweed flowers out of sight at the same time, giving goldenrod a bad rep among some people with hay fever. While ragweed sheds pollen to the whims of the wind, goldenrod holds pollen that will be picked up and transported by insect pollinators. You’re not likely to inhale any goldenrod pollen unless a bee crawls up your nose.
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Fortunate Photons
From a distant sun,
some light finds another sun
and can shine again.
Glowing yellow like the sun,
spider waits for prey to come.
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Good Either Way
double or single
“Rose of Sharon” or “Althea”
sunny or cloudy
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Feeding Frenzy
At least 3 kinds of bee were zooming among Virginia creeper flowers like sharks zooming in and out of a bait ball. The smallest kind did not show in any of my photos.
Dahlias at a Diner
When they bloom,
each day is sunny.
Food’s good too.
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Rhododendron Rescue in 2023
Where I live, it’s normal to get a big snowstorm around the middle of March. It’s not normal to have so much heavy wet snow on a lopsided rhododendron rooted in such soft thawed soil that the whole bush topples over. Could it saved?
Be(e) in the Moment ~ 😉
Learn from the past and
be ready for the future.
Live in the present.
Choosing images to go with the lines of my aphoristic haiku was easy (for the past), serendipitous (for the present), and beset with false starts (for the future).
I remembered one of the photos I took among the ruins of ancient Greek temples at Paestum in the 1970-s. So stark, so sad, so in the past. Dwelling on the past would rot the mind. Learn from it and move on.
The future is fluid, unpredictable, possibly dystopian. Plan and prepare, but be ready to change plans if an unlikely future unfolds. (It will.) I wanted an image that was noncommital but not just blurry. After several false starts, I took a tight closeup of swirling brushwork in a small painting by an unknown artist, bought decades ago at a charity sale.
Wanting something joyful and ephemeral for the present, I culled some photos of flowering trees taken in 2020. One jumped out. The camera catches a bee hovering for a moment where it enhances a larger overall composition. The admonition to “be in the moment” is like the haiku’s final line and could be tweaked to give this post a title that winks at the final image.
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Persistent Purple
No longer pretty,
potted tulips catch my eye
until petals fall.
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Wanderlust
Planted crocus long ago,
only in their beds, U know.
Staying there was such a yawn,
some went forth to grace the lawn.
Call this doggerel if U must,
but I hold a sacred trust.
I will seize each fleeting chance
to be as cheeky as my plants.
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Sharing More than Light
Slow shutter needed.
Daffodil and tulip share
early morning light.
~ ~ ~ ~
There is enough for us all,
if we take less than we want.
Light ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #319
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Mellow Curmudgeon 