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Category: flower of the day
Elliot’s Flower of the Day: April 11, 2019
Our afternoon walk yesterday was perfect for observing new spring blooms.: sunny, breezy, and mellow.
I usually take flower pictures but decided it would be fun to switch it up and have my seven-year old take them instead. I handed my phone over to him and he snapped away. It was interesting to see him admire nature, take pictures, and decide which ones were worthy of keeping and others of deleting. Kids grow up so fast! I couldn’t help but reminisce the old days when we used to take nature walks with him in the Ergo carrier. I digress…they bring back pleasant memories for me.
He chose the picture below to post on my blog. I hope you enjoy it!
It’s been titled: “Sun-day Flowers” or “Flowers hug a tree”
FOTD: March 30, 2019. Bright tulip blossom
Flower of the Day: March 25, 2019.
These bright flowers remind me of crinkled tissue paper.
My picture here does not show the extent of their graceful blooms. I wish I took the picture from a distance to show how they look like they’re floating against the blue sky. But taking flower pictures with kids is major distraction: my attention is split telling the kids to stop ninja chopping each other and to stay on the sidewalk.
But I did notice that its stems and unbloomed buds had fuzz all along it, as well as lots of leaves. I wonder if those factors give the thin stems its stability.
Something to google…first I need to learn what kind of flower this is. If you know, please share. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great start to a new week!
Nature can be so sneaky
Every spring, I’m amazed at the speed of how little buds burst into leaves. Some trees produce delicate flowers and then blow away.
So many mysteries and questions with nature’s cycles. One morning the branches are bare; next morning little buds miraculously appear.
I’m an eager botany student, but the learning is slow going. But it’s fun to learn through observation and admiration of nature doing its thing faithfully every season.
Do these pink flower clusters come before the leaves?
-Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.”
Thanks Cee for hosting this FOTD challenge! Happy to share…https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/59080076/posts/35529
