Flower Power

Posted by on Apr 16, 2012 in Featured | 0 comments

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Flowers in a vase

 

Flower power. I bet you’ve heard of that often. I’ve never really thought of the meaning behind it but flowers certainly have a certain kind of power that makes one feel happy, appreciated and admired. Flowers make surrounding beautiful if not making a certain area look like a piece of paradise…that paradise,  a place in which existence is positive, harmonious and timeless.

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Sunshine

Posted by on Sep 17, 2011 in Cosmos, Featured, Flower Macros | 10 comments

 

“Yellow flowers come forward in the landscape helping to make a large garden feel cozier.”

 

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Weekend Flowers, Macro Flowers, Postcard Perfect

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Petunias

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011 in Featured, Petunias | 9 comments

petunia

 Petunias in pink and lavender.

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Photo taken August 2011, Fürth, Germany.

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White tulip

Posted by on May 25, 2011 in Tulips | 1 comment

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“The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip.” – Samuel Johnson

 

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A single tulip

Posted by on May 25, 2011 in Tulips | 1 comment

The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~Isaac Watts
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Hibiscus

Posted by on May 18, 2011 in Hibiscus | 0 comments

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
 ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

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Redness

Posted by on May 14, 2011 in Leaves | 0 comments

“The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes

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