:: dahlia viii ::

A soggy start to today and finally low enough light to capture a bright red dahlia...albeit a drippy, wet, bright red dahlia!

:: paeonia iii ::

"Feels" like the first day of Summer here today...balmy and warm...and the intimates of a paeony to celebrate :)

:: hydrangea iv ::

...the beginning of the hydrangeas...

...still a bit nippy out there to call it Summer yet, although plenty of luscious sunshine to savour...

:: dahlia vii ::

...and the bumblebees were going wild! At one point there were three in this dahlia bloom!

:: paeonia ii ::

and at last the waiting is over!

the two paeony roses are finally in bloom

:: watsonia ii ::

A salmon-coloured watsonia to brighten this very softly-foggy, misty morning here down South.

:: rosa xxxiv ::

Watching flowers evolve (or die!) is something I enjoy the marvel of - leaving them in the vase to fully, voluptously, delicately express their all - well as far as a flower can, that has been snipped and (artfully, of course!) arranged into a vase in a house.

The texture, the colour and the form all metamorphose into a glorious, fragile yet powerful, exquiste 'spentness'...may we all hold the courage within us to be able to do the same!

[this rose is one from the same vase from Saturday just past]