TODAY'S FLOWERS & I Heart Macro - Playing with a new Toy

Just got my Macro lens

tee hee hee

playtime: a little hillock

of pollen

who knew that English daisy petals

looked like polyps??

a little splash of colour

hanging on after last night's

severe frost

and a few shy Tritelias
sheltering under a rose bush

Wether you have summer or winter where you are

make sure you enjoy whatever is blooming.

Linking with 

TODAY'S FLOWERS

and 

I Heart Macro

TODAY'S FLOWERS - Jonquils

Flowers raising their heads above all the weeds

in my little front garden

their pretty faces enhancing the putti

supporting the bird bath

softly smiling no matter the cold, rain or wind

be grateful for what you have

lest you are left with nothing at all.

TODAY'S FLOWERS - Spring in Winter

A beautiful display of gleaming gold as the weeds thrive and flower 

in my garden.

 Almond blossom have been out since mid-winter

as have masses of Jonquils.

It is such a happy time when there is enough rain to make the flowers grow.

TODAY'S FLOWERS ~ Winter Treasures

The first ray of hope in the cold of winter that Spring will come
again, the delicate Winter Iris shyly hiding amongst its leaves.

Do enlarge to see the sparkle.

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The earliest of Jonquils, a clump of virginal white.

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Jonquils at Cair Paravel

Jonquils on this field of old
from a tiny bulb unfold
that some poor hard working wife
planted here to ease her life



Cair Paravel we call it now
to us a ruined castle bold
yet held it in some bygone time
a woman's love of place untold



She tried her best in barren waste
to make a homely garden grow
survivours of her toil stil cling
upon this little rise of saline soil



The Jonquils, Garlic, Periwinkle blue
have struggled here an hundred years
and fifty more and still
as they did long ago
gladden us and swell our hearts
with thanks to this starved soul
for these few links at hand
she had of comfort and remembrance
of her native land.