Cee welcomes us all to join in on her challenge to share the beauty of the flowers around us. I am sharing 1 flower, a lily that is in a vase of flowers I was given. The lily shows its stages as one of the buds opened throughout the day. Hope you enjoy.
New life
The first shot was about 10am this morning. The tight bud of last night now is showing cracks of opening.
Taking a big breath
By lunch, the flower was showing progress as it began to roll out its petals.
Hello world
By the end of the football game I was watching, one side was completely open.
By early evening it was fully open taking taking a good 10 hours from bud to flower. An amazing beauty to be enjoyed.
Always remember the beauty of kindness. It really can change the momentum of the day.
I enjoy flower pictures and Cee’sFOTD is always fun. This picture I took was of a vase of flowers I had received. There is just something magical about a rose.
Be part of the beauty around you and have fun sharing the flowers you see. In closing I remind you to be kind. Kindness has a beauty all its own. You might be surprised the benefits it brings.
For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge, I am combining close ups and macros. I took two photos of each flower, a close up and a macro, then decided which I liked best. Some I liked both. For starters, I can finally reach the bloom of one of my sunflowers because the weight of the massive bloom filled with seeds is causing the stalk to bend over. This is actually a close and a closer. The closer one you can seed the seeds.
I am surprised the birds have not attacked these. They are full
Some of my flowers have gotten real leggy but their blooms are still beautiful.
Two variations of marigolds. You can see that the inner part has tiny blooms that open as well.
The center of these also have those tiny buds that open like flowers
Some of the mums are hitting a second wave of blooming.
Dianthus are always a favorite
Petunias
Rich Purple
In closing we have the light pink center of a dark pink geranium.
A reminder that we don’t have to be in the center to be beautiful. Beauty, like kindness, comes from within. So, be beautifully kind.
The first of September is always a busy time. First and foremost…football starts. For those of us who loved American football, it generally breaks down into two separate categories – College and Professional – and there are fanatic fans in both categories. Usually people follow either college or pro – seldom do they follow both. For me, its college and this year we are defending the National Title.
Go Dawgs
It’s true, those of us from Georgia spell ‘dog’ as dawg…its meaner that way, Junk Yard Dawgs. And unless you are familiar with the meanness of a dog that guards a junk yard, you won’t understand the term. Our first game of this season looked real good but we will see how the entire season goes.
The second reason for it being busy is the first Monday of September is Labor Day. Labor day is a government holiday for all people who work – labor. I also find it an amusing day as my mother was in labor on labor day. Yes, it was my birthday.
Yes, I am 25…again
My dear friends at church gave me my own birthday cake with a sunflower on it in celebration of the day and the gi-normous sunflowers I planted in the community garden of the church.
Now we can get ready for fall for two months then its my favorite season to prepare for…Christmas. It take me two weeks just to get the village up, there are 5 trees to get up and this year we are playing outside…so who know what all that will be. I will post lots of pictures.
In the mean time, enjoy fall. The colors will be changing soon and hopefully this year we will actually get a fall. Last year it was 2 weeks, then it snowed. Oh well, life in the midwest.
I encourage you all the be kind. All created beings thrive on kindness, so allow all to thrive.
Nature creates blooms from huge to tinyNature displays objects from elegant to craftyNature shows seasons of growth, change and rest
Nature is a gift from God for us to enjoy each day as we open our eyes to see the beauty that is in front of us, regardless of the season. We people have a nature and the strongest component is kindness.
I recently bought a new humming bird feeder because the others kept leaking. I was using my phone camera for these, but they did come out kind of neat. Hope you enjoy them. I need to buy a lens for my camera that do closeups better.
They are such cool little creatures. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. remember to be kind.
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