Photo Challenge prompt: ROUND in our 52 Week Photo Challenge
The hydrangeas in my garden are at their most beautiful stage at the moment.
In a Vase on Monday: Cathy has challenged us to create a minimalist or ikebana style arrangement of flowers from our garden this week – my very favourite style – and because my current creative obsession is using trash from the beach to create art – here is my take on it
I couldn’t decide which placement I preferred, which do you like best?
hydrangea’s soft blues
growing bigger and brighter with time
like childhood dreams
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Joining in with Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge, this week’s prompts: TIME and GROW
hydrangea’s soft blues growing bigger and brighter with time
growing bigger and brighter with time like childhood dreams
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And for Cee’s Flower of the Day ………….
This hydrangea grows just next to my ‘field’ of lychnis
with a few self seeded mallows and purple toadflax thrown in
My front garden is alive with bugs, buzzing and beasties – a complete joy to behold.
Next week’s Photo Challenge Prompt is
ZEST
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Just realised I hadn’t left a comment, Sandra, although I did read your post on Monday… apologies. I thought your take on ikebana was brilliant, particularly as it took advantage of your beach scavenging streak. I like the first one the best – and the colours are great!
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You have and a busy week Cathy! Interesting – you are the
onlysecond one who has voted for the first one – isn’t it fascinating how we all see things differently — I love that about having creative discussions. There is no right or wrong – just different ways of seeing. Thank you for your comment and your challenge – great fun!LikeLike
And hopefully I will pick up the haiku/photo challenge again in due course!
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It will be lovely to have you along when time allows and/or inspiration strikes! 🙂
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My round is at https://digwithdorris.wordpress.com hope you like them.
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Love them Dorris – once you start looking rounds abound! Thanks for joining in. ❤
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Rounds abound , like it! And don’t they just
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amazing haiku! I loved the first placing..
mine is here
https://wingofdreams.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/we-all-are-meant-to-bloom-for-ronovanwrites-wordpress-com/
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Thank you for letting me know which one you like best. I love your haiku!
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Likening hydrangeas to childhood dreams, what a fantastic piece of imagery.
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Thank you Freya – it always amazes me what comes up when switching into haiku-mode. I’m so glad you like it.
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Hydrangeas can be so very beautiful. Wonderfully captured and staged.
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Thank you Cee for your kind comment.
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your front garden looks and sounds wonderful, Frances
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Thank you Frances. I love the abundant wildness of it, my neighbours however …………!! I don’t think they love weeds/wild flowers/wild abandon as much as I do. They have a lot to put up with with me in their midst! Ha!
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All the flowers are beautiful — some interesting names. I like both of your arrangements but if I had to choose I think it would be the last one. And I enjoy your haiku of dreams as well 🙂
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Ah! Thank you Janice it seems that arrangement 2 and 3 are equally popular – always fun to know. 🙂
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I love your round hydrangeas and the combination of lychnis and mallow is positively dreamy. I need to get looking for my round shot now.
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Thank you Dorris. I’m looking forward to seeing what you choose.
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I think I would go for the third photo.
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Thank you RJ – it seems 2 and 3 are the most popular – always interesting.
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Love the bringing together of ‘findings’ and flowers…
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“findings and flowers” – love it – thank you Noelle.
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Stunning . . . . .very clever round indeed. I like the middle one too, but would like to see what the final one looks like if I was standing at the end looking down it. As I’ve got an inkling I might like that even more!
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oooo – now there’s a thought! I must go and see myself – thank you! ❤
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I visited then Hydrangea Temple in June 2000 and have lots of images, for the scan to JPG list for a future haiku!!!
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That’s exciting! I’ll look forward to seeing them, you always take such good photos.
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Beautiful hydrangeas Sandra. You would love the hydrangea temple in Nara Japan, thousands of them , every imaginable shape, colour and size amidst a forest
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I just looked it up Denis – wow that must be an amazing sight. You are so right, I really would love it.
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Beautiful blue hydrangeas and haiku….I like it in the center placement.
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The centre placement wins! It gets the most votes – I had fun arranging and rearranging and then I just could not decide which to post so posted all 3 – thank you for letting me know which one you like Donna.
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Couldn’t take my eyes off that soft pink mallow and that fields looks so inviting.
How nice you can go beach-combing for nice bits of plant support like that. Great accent for your lovely hydrangea.
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Thank you for your lovely comment Joanna. I am having such fun finding all sorts of stuff on the beach and then working out how to use it creatively.
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Very clever! The Hydrangea is scrumptious. I like the second placement best, although I’d be hard-pressed to articulate why. Your Hydrangea and the Lychnis complement each other beautifully in your garden too.
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Thank you so much Kris, the 4th vote for the second photo, it is turning out to be the most popular. Fun!
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I like the second arrangement as it creates a triangle shape. Lovely natural round!
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3 votes for the middle photo – thank you Cathy, I’m really interested to know which ones everyone likes. You wouldn’t believe how many positions I put the items in and then how many different angles I photographed them from! In the end whittling it down to three was as far as I could go.
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Love the Hydrangea with found objects from the beach. Isn’t it weird what you can find that washes up?? I like the middle photo as well, and the way the blues pick up the hydrangea colors.
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I am truly amazed at what I have been finding on the beach and how each object takes on a completely different personality when arranged and photographed out of context. 2 votes for the middle one so far – it is fun to know which one you like – thank you. 🙂
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What beach are you on?
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Dorset beaches, Charmouth and Osmington Mills so far. I am recording my finds on the blog: https://beachcleanart.wordpress.com
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oh, that is great. I am in South Florida, opposite side of the Atlantic. I have to look at your new blog!
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I wonder what you would find on your beaches. Yes pop on over to the new blog, you are very welcome, I have created it as a way of recording my finds.
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our beaches are currently closed due to a totally preventable disaster. I posted about it on my blog right before the vase on monday.
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In Southern England.
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Those hydrangeas are beautiful, Daffy, I like the third picture the best of your arrangement 🙂
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Thanks Eddie! That’s two votes for number 3 – I love knowing which you like the best.
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So interesting. I like the third one. Your field of lychnis is lovely too.
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Thank you so much Susie. It is great to know which arrangement has hit a note with you. I do enjoy trying out different placements.
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Wow, I am seriously impressed by that arrangement. I really can’t decide which photo I prefer, as the effect is so different in each.
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Thank you so much Cathy. You wouldn’t believe the amount of time I spent moving each item into a different position, trying to decide which was best!
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I like the second photograph best because the blue tones flow through the composition and are pleasing to the eye.
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Thank you – yes I see what you mean – the blues kinda join up – I hadn’t noticed that. It is fun hearing what other people see.
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