the wild daffodil

Bee-n-v

Common are they. Uncommonly exquisite when they line a walking trail for miles without  end.

Hey!

Need to know the weed...

from a few feet away..

close up

 do you know what these are?  they seem to encompass a green plant or clump of grass.  very fine strands or lines of fragile purple, almost like a web.

Flowers should be sent

They share their dazzling beauty, divine fragrance, and unguarded tenderness....how about u!

meadow of wildflowers

                                      Ah! The zen of it all!

The Meadow - Poem by Robert Edgar Burns

In the meadow of the valley, 
Where wild flowers are roaming free.
There are multitudes of colors
And their backdrop forest greens.

.....

paper cut flowers

Jpr : made snow flakes with scissors as a kid but not the like of these!

my field

This view is the field in back (southern third). The green arrow shows the location where the young girls from the neighborhood picked wild flowers. The ladies have a sixth senses for finding beauty the guys overlook.

Lilac Bush

My grandmother had her one!
My mother had her one!
I got one!

a different flower

Flowers in outer space

Zinnia was grown on space station, the first flower to grow and bloom in space.

Flowers in the rain

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”

― Robert Frost

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMG8xW2HrAM

bee in a flower

Bees get a positive electric charge on their bodies from their flights. Flowers have been found to store  negative electric charges. The resultant electric field from flower to nearby bee signals the honest presence of nectar and honey. Researchers have placed electrodes in flowers and recorded a bee's landing. The resulting flower's field change persists for some time signaling to other bees of a previous visit.

The red rose

Evidence suggests that the red rose is nearly 35 million years old.

Ancient civilizations such as those of the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans have given the red rose a special place.The Romans discovered the medicinal properties of the red rose, and also found ways of capturing its fragrance in perfumes.

The red rose also has an interesting place in the history of England. Opposing factions in York and Lancaster fought for control over England in the 15th century. York was synonymous with the white rose and Lancaster with the red rose. In fact, the friction between these warring factions led to the coining of the term 'War of the Roses'.

In catholicism red roses are associated with Our Lady Of Guadalupe.

Frost Flowers. another useless factoid.

Frost flowers are actually frost found on new ice lakes and the northern oceans in late autumn or early winter.  In some climates, the Ozark Mountains and Scotland, the ice crystals appear on vegetation in woodlands. Conditions require some humidity and at least a 15 C degree temperature difference between the air and the surface.  Proof of the existence of God?

Time of Roses by Thomas Hood

It was not in the Winter                                          

Our loving lot was cast;
It was the time of roses—
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!

That churlish season never frown'd
On early lovers yet:
O no—the world was newly crown'd
With flowers when first we met!

'Twas twilight, and I bade you go,
But still you held me fast;
It was the time of roses—
We pluck'd them as we pass'd!

appalachian rose

just a beautiful wildflower..that means it be free

June flowers

Ah yes!  We are back!

wildflowers of virginia

jpr: Grows'em in my yard. Hardy and this time of year get's new blooms by the handful over night. Fixing to plant a wildflower meadow  in my back 10' sometime in the future. We loves'em we do!

wild flowers of spring

"Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens
A rose today.  But you will ask in vain
Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday
It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains."
-  Christina Rosetti   

Cut flowers from apple orchard

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Jpm: bought me some and home made apple donuts ..very good like the ones mom made!