Flower season in Seattle
 

I love digital cameras. The phrase "electrons are cheap" always brings a smile to my face. And I have sacrificed many many electrons in pursuit of these images. If you like flowers, read on. If you don't, move on.

Enter the Iris
 

A lovely iris

Delve deeper
 

and deeper

Touchdown
 

The lens is touching the flower petals at this point.

Blue lupine
 

lots of blue lupine

It's time for your closeup, Miss Lupine
 

and the stagehands :)

If the colors look a little washed out, it's because
 

this is the light I had to work with. I'm not complaining.

So THAT'S what Dennis Moore wanted!!

Love the lupine.

Wow bv, that cheered up my dreary Thursday morning. :biggrin:

Yes that's right, the flower lupine.

Beautiful. I loved all of them but the sky was what took my breath away!

Wonderful shots, V. Have you ever gone up for the Skaggit Valley tulip festival?

Verry cool Big V !!!! Verry cool !!!! :)

Nice V...I love flowers. :thumb:

Since this plant was beat up immediately after we moved in by both hurricane Francis and hurricane Jeanne, we weren't 100% sure of what it was ... now we have the proof that it is a bird of paradise.

FD

Yep, no question there. That is a textbook example of a beautiful bird of paradise. Lovely! What gaudy, glorious, bodacious flower. Look at me!

They're the ones that are sure to get to reproduce. ;)

So tiny!

Yes, a little post processing... sue me.

I love this little beauty.

Grerat shots. I love flowers. I have a number of pics.

Thanks for sharing Big V.

lol @ "It's time for your closeup, Miss Lupine" :)

pic01 -- Grape hyacinth.

pic02 -- Bug's perspective.

pic 01 -- Daffydils.. what are they all gawking at?

pic 02 -- Tink's tulips, armed and ready.

my old picture with canon 410
http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/5...1203kc8.th.jpg

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Hello and welcome, Fongar. Nice picture--looks like a pansy, do you know for sure?

These are really lovely pictures, BigV. Thank you for sharing them with us.

nice at i got reply :)
i think pansy is right in english



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V I'm going to tell Tink you are reading my mind.
Your pics are pretty much my favourite Spring flowers.

(note to those who want to send expensive bouquets - also roses, lilies and orchids)

We call Irises "flags" and I have always associated them with my parents' tall, thin neighbour who grew them. And Daffodils are also called "Lent lilies" - I prefer your idea of a chattering crowd of rubberneckers though.

I had hyacinth on my desk the week before last, scenting the office. This week it's scented narcissus. Am sorta dreading the summer because the cheap flowers go of season. Maybe I can get some wildflowers.

Keep taking the pics V - they are wonderful.

I saw several narcissuses on this latest walk... and I couldn't get a nice shot of any of them. All colors, pink, white, burgundy, blue, they are lovely. I'll try again.. they are so complicated...

Just realised I didn't say how gorgeous your photos are!
They're beautiful.

Thank you for your kind remarks.

Well, my amateur status as a photographer is no greater than my amateur status as a botanist. I misspoke yesterday. I had an image in mind of a flower I described as a narcissus but I was really imagining a hyacinth, like these. I knew that, and it bugged me as I walked the neighborhood last night. I intended to correct my misstatement this morning.

As I explored a little, I found out that I *have* taken pictures of narcissuses, and lots of them. I have just been associating them with the common name "daffodil". I had no idea.

So here are a couple shots of local narcissuses, so cheery and showy. I'll try again on the hyacinths and I promise more tulips to come. I saw some beauties yesterday.

pic 01 -- Tink's tulips showing off.

pic 02 -- Even the laurels are in a festive mood.

Beautiful! Thanks for posting them.

I'm think'in The tulips don't seem to mind the rain at all so why should I? In fact they seem perfectly happy to be cold and wet all the time.

You're welcome. :)

It has been a pretty wet Spring, so far. Saturday was sunny and warm (73 deg F) and I got a chance to work in the back yard. But that was an exception weather-wise. I lately all my picture safaris are under cloudy skies. *sigh*

yep, I did the exact same thing! I am under those same grey clouds neighbor. I just don't have a nice camera. ;)

Oh just wait until I do. I'll break UT's bank with all the neat photos I'd take. lol

pic 01 -- Tink's tulips, looking north and in full bloom. They're a little past their prime now.

pic 02 -- One of the neighbor's gleaming beauties.

Tulips! So beautiful, inside and out!

pic01 -- Lily at the locks

pic01 -- Tink's lilacs from the back yard

....

Beautiful, what sort of film do you use?

I could almost smell those lilacs. Don't ya love 'em?

Great pics.

All of the pictures are very reminisce of Georgia O'Keefe. I love her paintings of flowers and have styled much of my art work after hers.
Flowers are always fun to take. These below were taken in Mexico and I have no idea what they are, but the colors are wonderful.

Lantana. They grow wild in Texas too.

Tree Fae, the latanas are beautiful!

Clodfobble, *thank you* for that identification. I have always marveled at that blossom, but didn't know what it was.

It's Flower Season in Hawaii too.

Photo Credit: SonofV

pic01 -- Yellow Hibiscus, the state flower, endemic to Hawaii.

pic02 -- A lovely slender plumeria, probably my favorite Hawaiian flower.

A couple lovely roses at the end of the block...

i love seattle :D

I like this one. Lotus blossom.

I love the pollen on the lotus blossom! So wonderfully detailed.

Oh V!
(as opposed to oy vai)

Such BEAUTY.
I am floored with admiration.

V those are some excellent pics.

Florida that's one beautiful bird.

Here's my :2cents: worth:

Miniature Rose
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1183/...cdeb98a2d4.jpg

Columbine
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1053/...d8ae5d79f9.jpg

Chrysanthemum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1221/...f17dc82fa4.jpg

Oriental Lily
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1386/...7ecdcff1_o.jpg

Sorry 'bout the huge pic, but I couldn't help myself:D

Thanks Gravdigr. Your rose is enchanting. Is that in your yard? It is just perfect, what a beautiful blossom. All your pictures are lovely. Thank you for sharing them.

Love the Columbine.

Yes, V it is in one of Mom's flower corners. Only slightly bigger than a quarter.:D

Here are a couple shots of the results of yesterday's "work". It was interesting to see the same flowers year over year. They really do look lovely. I broke one of the pink tulips in the process, it's now inside with me.

Nothing brings a smile to my face faster than 2 lips. ;-0

but, but.... tha's a cheeky remark.

be-U-ti-ful!

That is so pretty, Big V. Do you have to replant the tulip bulbs every year?

I'll answer for him from experience.
No. Tulips and daffodils are perennials. The bulbs bloom every year.
I brought some bulbs back form Amsterdam for the 'rents. Supposed to be black, but in fact dark purple. Still, they stand out among the red and yellow :)

One of the things I like to see is where gardens are not completely loved by new inhabitants, but the perennials come up anyway. It's more likely in Indian/ Pakistani households, where gardens are kept tidy but not tended. British/ white households tend to let the whole thing go, so you can't see the flowers even if they do come up for the litter and plastic bags strewn about.