For Bren and Cee. Floral Friday and Flower of the Day
Tag: cosmos
I Gladly Give Them the World
Flowers for Cee and Becky is a wonderful idea. Autumn Squared
I Never Think of the Future. It Comes Soon Enough.
“Ich denke niemals an die Zukunft. Sie kommt früh genug.”
Albert Einstein
So, I will not think about the coming of autumn. Instead I will enjoy the last of summer. Cosmos are usually among the late bloomers in the field. But how glorious they are!
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Late Bloomer
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Nostalgia
There is this strip of flowers next to a field and I make a point of driving there at least once every September. Normally cosmos are garden flowers in Germany, a couple of clumps at most. This strip – possibly 200 metres long, 2 metres wide at most – is a place where they are allowed to grow wild and it reminds me so much of the highveld in South Africa where in autumn white and pink cosmos fields stretch into the distance.
For Floral Friday and FOTD
I’m a Fan of Cosmos
These are not new photos, most of them are from last autumn. I looked at them for a collage for the Sunday colour collage challenge called Värikollaasit in which I participate. And I really thought these flowers needed to be showcased a bit more. For me, cosmos spell homesickness to the South African highveld where they abound in autumn. They are not native to South Africa but came there with contaminated horsefeed during the Boer War.
They look best either from far – just pink and dark and light pink shades over the Highveld, which I cannot have here in Germany – or from close up.
A Universe in Pink
Aino’s colours for today immediately put me in mind of cosmos – cosmos bipennatus – the flowers I know from the South African highveld. They grow in late summer so the green surrounding the pink and white flowers is partly subdued and veers towards beige.
What Would Carl Sagan say?
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Macro Monday
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