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Tag Archives: flower
ImageSummer
washed through with bright hope
looking up at Summer skies
drinking in the rays
Cee’s Flower of the Day
Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge, prompt words: HOPE and UP
Our Weekly Photo Challenge: SUMMER
I was wondering which photo to choose to represent Summer and walked out of my front door to be greeted by the first Stargazer Lily to open this year – mmmmm that scent – mmmm those colours – says Summer to me.
What would your SUMMER photo be – to join in, leave a link in the comments.
Click here to see the prompts for the coming weeks
Next week’s Photo Challenge Prompt
STREET
Photo Challenge Round Up: Heat
The season for Open Gardens is here in the UK, so good to be able to go into so many beautiful and quirky private gardens. I think this is a geum in hot colours, but could it be a potentilla?
Love that dark star at the centre. Joining Cee’s ‘Flower of the Day’.
Also getting hot this week:
Jane at Rainbow Junkie……. …………… …… cook
Cathy at Nanacathy…….. ……. ……….. …….desert
me at Wild Daffodil……… ……… ………. card
💜 Melissa at The Aran Artisan …………………. fire
Denis at Haiku Hound…….. ……….. ……sunset
Christina A Look at the Little Things ……. …90s
⭐️ Srivi at Piscean Me……………. ………… ….Mumbai
The denotes a post that is also joining in with Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge – it’s fun to combine the two.
The denotes a post with a poem or haiku written to go with the photo, but not using Ronovan’s prompt words.
Please let me know if I have missed anyone
Thank you everyone for your steamy entries.
Four fab photo fiends created the 52 Week Photo Challenge, we are:
- Cathy from Nanacathydotcom
- Jane from Rainbowjunkiecorner
- Melissa from The Aran Artisan
- Sandra from Wild Daffodil
Thanks to Rainbow Jane’s bit of coaching I have created the links slightly differently so that they open in a new window – I hope this is helpful. Thank you Jane! 😀
Update:
An entry from my sister of her dog Bentley cooling off in the heat of the day by having a swim, he looks a bit knackered! Poor old Bentley!
Update 2 from Dig with Dorris, using glorious hot summer colours in a vase and joining Cathy’s In a Vase on Monday.
Join in any time
Next up is the Photo Prompt
PLAY
Photo Challenge – click on the link to find out how to join in and see all the subjects set out for the weeks ahead.
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Photo Challenge Round-Up: Reflection
Echo calls from the mountain,
Narcissus only sees himself,
a doomed reflection
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I am combining the Round-Up with ‘In a Vase on Monday’, scroll to the end of the post to read more about the ‘Vase’.
Here are this week’s REFLECTIONS:
Jane at Rainbow Junkie……. …………… ………ad infinitum
Cathy at Nanacathy…….. ……. ……….. ……. sentinels
me at Wild Daffodil……… ……… ……….water sculpture
Cathy at Rambling in the Garden ……8 pane abstraction
⭐️ Denis at Haiku Hound…….. ……….. ………….water colour
💜 Roz at Umpteen Things ……………………………..barmy?
Roz at Umpteen Things……………… …………………..canal
Becky at BeckyG ………… …….. ……….. ……..spooky?
Christina A Look at the Little Things ……. …………..pink
Dorris at Dig with Dorris ………… …… ……….soft sunset
Ali at Thimberlina.………… …………….. ….pink and grey
Del from Curls and Skirls……….. ………………..thinking
Srivi at Piscean Me……………. …………gold, grey, breeze
Jen at Let the Sewing Begin ……………… ……….take off
The 💜 denotes a post that is also joining in with Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge – it’s fun to combine the two.
The ⭐️ denotes a post with a poem or haiku written to go with the photo, but not using Ronovan’s prompt words.
Please let me know if I have missed anyone
Thank you everyone for your fabulous Reflections.
Next up is the Photo Prompt
WORK
You can join in the Photo Challenge any time, click on the link to find out how to and see all the subjects for the weeks ahead.
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In this post I am also joining in with Cee’s Flower of the Day, Macro Monday,
and
Cathy’s wonderful ‘In a Vase on Monday ‘ where she invites us to find things in our gardens to pop in a vase each week. The great thing about this meme is that Cathy also adds a few props and each ‘Vase’ tells a story.
The mirror in the photo above is an appropriate prop for a ‘Vase’ referencing a myth about unrequited love. It was given to me many years ago by a boyfriend. Before I opened the present he told me that when I opened the wrapping I would see the most beautiful thing in the world – and of course, as it was a mirror, I saw myself!
Sadly the relationship ended before I wanted it too, but it is always nice to remember the good things and I still love that little mirror.
Posted in Haiku Challenge, Photo Challenge, Vase on Monday
Tagged 52 week photo challenge round up, Echo, flower, haiku, In a Vase on Monday, macro, Myth, Myth of Narcissus, narcissus, poetry
Bloom
locks love in deep as nectar
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Phew, it was touch and go whether I could combine the two challenges this week:
Photo Challenge: BLOOM
Haiku Challenge: GAB and LOCK
I have three A4 sides of paper covered with scribblings and scrubbing out, I went down some dark allies with those two words and could not seem to find my way back into the light and to linking them with BLOOM. I considered abandoning the Haiku challenge – but determination kicked in, it is a challenge after all, and at last I made it. Haiku traditionally take inspiration from nature so I think it works.
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I hope it feels as if the Haiku is ‘locked‘ between the photos
This is the first year I have succulents flowering outside. They look like aliens from another planet, but the colours are gorgeous, with a soft ‘bloom‘ on them.
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This week’s entries in the Photo Challenge: Erika, smell those lilies; Garry’s rose; Jamie‘s hot colours, beautiful light; Cathy’s Plan A and Plan B, which would you choose?; Melissa’s blue bells, but not bluebells.
It’s not too late to join in!
This photo was standing by as understudy, and rather than discard it I thought I would give it its moment and let it take a bow.
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Next week it is time to get HOT for the Photo Challenge!
Posted in creativity, garden, Haiku Challenge, photos
Tagged bluedaisyz photo challenge, flower, haiku, photo challenge, poem, Ronovan's Haiku Challenge, succulent
Smooth
Smoothest pink petals Erotic design to lure In to the centre
Smooth by Jamie, Roz, Garry (great minds … Garry!), Erika
GARDEN DIARY Pruned the apple tree. I cut up the prunings for kindling. The second day in a row that I have gardened til the sun went down – in February!!!! Fab-u-lussssss!
Posted in garden, permaculture, photos, poetry
Tagged 52 week challenge, flower, haiku, orchid, pink, poetry
OMG! this is just the best thing!
I can’t write too much as it’s late and I really need to wind down or I will never get to sleep, but I just had to share this Kaleidoscope programme from iHanna’s blog
click here to see her post.
Follow her instructions and it is so easy!
It should come with a potential addiction warning though
After some mandalas, I was playing around and this little
creature appeared:
it came from this photo of mine of a lily
I’m in danger of staying up all night creating a whole Lily family – NOoooooooo I must resist!!!!!!!
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